Without exception, all sea snakes are poisonous snakes, but the severity of toxicity is different with each other. Sea snake venom contains neurotoxic like cobra venom, but the strange thing is that it play a major role in skeletal
muscle, so it is called ciguatera.
China’s waters are known to have 15 kinds of sea snakes, for example, Lacticande semifasciata. Venoms from this sea snake have highly
toxic and is much bigger than those from the most poisonous snake on land.
Researchers of the American Chemical Society are using found A protein from copperhead snake venom can slow breast tumor growth. The protein blocks tumor cell adhesion and invasion and inhibits new blood vessel development in the tumors. Researchers from Australia are using snake venom to cure cancer.
In the present investigation,it was found that The biconcave erythrocytes became sphero-echinocytes.
Snake venom is already known to contain a variety or toxins which can inhibite the formation of clots. For example, people discoverd that blood did not clot after bitten by viper snake.
In a study led by Dr. David Sherman of the University of Texas Health
Science Center in San Antonio, Scientists found that 42 percent of stroke
patients who received ANCROD within three hours after the onset of the stroke had recovered the physicalthe. ANCROD which is made from
viper venom was given intravenously over a three-to-five day period after a stroke occurred. A research team from BHF which
has more than 25 years’ experience in the collection, storage and analysis
of snake venoms from around the world believe that te benefits of snake
venoms for heart patients are well-known and snake venom would cure heart attack and stroke.