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MeSH Heading: Elapid Venoms
Tree Number(s): D20.888.850.325; D23.946.833.850.325
Unique ID: D004546
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004546
Annotation: /antag permitted but consider also ANTIVENINS
Scope Note: Venoms from snakes of the family Elapidae, including cobras, kraits, mambas, coral, tiger, and Australian snakes. The venoms contain polypeptide toxins of various kinds, cytolytic, hemolytic, and neurotoxic factors, but fewer enzymes than viper or crotalid venoms. Many of the toxins have been characterized.
Entry Term(s): Cobra Venom; Cobra Venoms; Elapid Venom; Elapidae Venom; Elapidae Venoms; Hydrophid Venom; Hydrophid Venoms; King Cobra Venom; Naja Venom; Naja Venoms; Ophiophagus hannah Venom; Sea Snake Venom; Sea Snake Venoms
NLM Classification #: QW 630.5.V4
Previous Indexing: Snakes (1966-1974); Snake Venoms (1975-1977); Venoms (1966-1974)
See Also: Bungarus; Coral Snakes; Dendroaspis; Elapidae
Public MeSH Note: 78
History Note: 78
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/22
Revision Date: 2020/05/27

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analysis (AN)

antagonists & inhibitors (AI)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

economics (EC)

enzymology (EN)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

urine (UR)

Concept UI: M0007148
Scope Note: Venoms from snakes of the family Elapidae, including cobras, kraits, mambas, coral, tiger, and Australian snakes. The venoms contain polypeptide toxins of various kinds, cytolytic, hemolytic, and neurotoxic factors, but fewer enzymes than viper or crotalid venoms. Many of the toxins have been characterized.
Terms: Elapid Venoms Preferred Term
Term UI T013903
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1978); Elapidae Venoms
Term UI T001006404
Date01/29/2020
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Elapidae Venom
Term UI T001006406
Date01/29/2020
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Elapid Venom
Term UI T013902
Date02/17/1998
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999)

Concept UI: M0004668
Scope Note: Venoms from snakes of the genus NAJA. They contain many specific proteins that have cytotoxic, hemolytic, neurotoxic, and other properties. Like other elapid venoms, they are rich in enzymes. They include cobramines and cobralysins.
Terms: Cobra Venoms Preferred Term
Term UI T008818
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1978); Cobra Venom
Term UI T008817
Date02/17/1998
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999); Naja Venom
Term UI T008819
Date02/17/1998
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999); Naja Venoms
Term UI T008820
Date04/21/1977
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

Concept UI: M0010731
Scope Note: Venoms of sea snakes (HYDROPHIIDAE) found around Pacific islands. The venoms contain fewer enzymes and more neuro- or myotoxins than land snakes. The neurotoxic proteins are similar to elapid small, short, or type I neurotoxins, some of which have been characterized.
Terms: Hydrophid Venoms Preferred Term
Term UI T020715
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1978); Sea Snake Venom
Term UI T020716
Date02/17/1998
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999); Sea Snake Venoms
Term UI T020717
Date04/18/1977
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Hydrophid Venom
Term UI T020714
Date02/17/1998
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999)

Elapid Venoms MeSH Descriptor Data 2025