viperidic

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adjective

Of, belonging to, or relating to viperids.

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Meanings

adjectiveviperidic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarenon-native speakers' EnglishOf, belonging to, or relating to viperids.

    Thus, 2 elapidic and 13 viperidic venoms were analyzed by basic PAGE, from which characteristic electrophoretic patterns could be obtained (Figure 1A).

    1998, A.M. Soares, L.H. Anzaloni Pedrosa, M.R.M. Fontes, R.J. Da Silva, J.R. Giglio, “Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a tool for the taxonomic identification of snakes from the Elapidae and Viperidae families”, in Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins, volume 4, number 2
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    It was also shown that M. corallinus natriuretic peptide is more similar to a natriuretic peptide characterized from the Elapidic snake Dendroaspis angusticeps (Schweitz, 1992) than to the B. jararaca CNP characterized from the viperidic snake Bothrops jararaca (Murayama et al., 1997).

    1997 November, Paulo Lee Ho, Marcelo Bento Soares, Thomas Maack, Ignacio Gimenez, Giuseppe Puorto, Maria de Fátima Domingues Furtado, Isaias Raw, “Cloning of an Unusual Natriuretic Peptide from the South American Coral Snake Micrurus corallinus”, in European journal of Biochemistry, volume 250, number 1, page 146

    One of the main problems regarding viperidic accidents is prominent local tissue damage whose pathogenesis is complex and involves the combined actions of a variety of venom components.

    2011 December, Juliana I. dos Santos, Fábio F. Cardoso, Andreimar M. Soares, Maeli dal Pai Silva, Márcia Gallacci, and Marcos R. M. Fontes, “Structural and functional studies of a bothropic myotoxin complexed to rosmarinic acid: new insights into Lys49-PLA₂ inhibition”, in PloS One, volume 6, number 12

Origin

From viperid (“member of the family Viperidae”, noun) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives).

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