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Antiviral activity of animal venom peptides and related compounds

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#15 of 544)
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Antiviral activity of animal venom peptides and related compounds
Published in
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40409-016-0089-0
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Authors

Élida Cleyse Gomes da Mata, Caroline Barbosa Farias Mourão, Marisa Rangel, Elisabeth Ferroni Schwartz

Abstract

Viruses exhibit rapid mutational capacity to trick and infect host cells, sometimes assisted through virus-coded peptides that counteract host cellular immune defense. Although a large number of compounds have been identified as inhibiting various viral infections and disease progression, it is urgent to achieve the discovery of more effective agents. Furthermore, proportionally to the great variety of diseases caused by viruses, very few viral vaccines are available, and not all are efficient. Thus, new antiviral substances obtained from natural products have been prospected, including those derived from venomous animals. Venoms are complex mixtures of hundreds of molecules, mostly peptides, that present a large array of biological activities and evolved to putatively target the biochemical machinery of different pathogens or host cellular structures. In addition, non-venomous compounds, such as some body fluids of invertebrate organisms, exhibit antiviral activity. This review provides a panorama of peptides described from animal venoms that present antiviral activity, thereby reinforcing them as important tools for the development of new therapeutic drugs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 165 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 14%
Student > Bachelor 23 14%
Researcher 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 25 15%
Unknown 44 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 39 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 14%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 11 7%
Chemistry 8 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 4%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 58 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2024.
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#1,709,193
of 25,552,205 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#15
of 544 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,117
of 422,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
#1
of 12 outputs
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