Adults average 20–35 cm (8-14 inches) in total length (body + tail), with a maximum total length of 50 cm (1.6 ft). No subspecies are currently recognized. Cerastes is a genus of small, venomous vipers found in the deserts and semi-deserts of northern North Africa eastward through Arabia and Iran.

Isolation and characterization of venom proteins. This result is in agreement with Abd El -Aal et al.

Cerastes vipera, common names Sahara sand viper and Avicenna viper, is a venomous viper species endemic to the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai Peninsula.

Females are larger than males. A hemorrhagic metalloprotease (CVHT1) was isolated from Cerastes vipera (CV) viper venom and characterized in a set of biochemical and immunological assays. Diese Schlangenart kommt im Norden von Afrika und auch in Israel, Jordanien und der Arabischen Halbinsel vor.

C. vipera, neonate.

In 1981, the World Health Organization decided that the preferred terminology in the English language would be venom and antivenom rather than venin and antivenin or venen and antivenene. References External links. After extraction, the venoms were immediately freeze-dried and stored at 4 °C.

Description. Venoms of C. vipera and M. lebetina transmediterranea were collected from snakes of both sexes kept in captivity at the Serpentarium of the Institut Pasteur de Tunis.

A simple two-step purification procedure included gel filtration and ion-exchange increase the purity of enzyme 39-fold with specific activity of 20,200 Umg-1 compared to 520 Umg-1 for crude venom. CVHT1 is a dimer … Sie sollte nicht mit der in Europa - und besonders auf dem Balkan - vorkommenden Europäischen Hornotter (Vipera ammodytes) verwechselt werden. Von der Gattung der Hornviper (Cerastes) gibt es folgende Arten:

Three species are currently recognized by "ITIS" (Integrated Taxonomic Information System), and an additional recently described species is recognized by the Reptile Database.

(23) who reported that the Total protein of Cerastes vipera venom is 0.927 mg/ml.