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84 relations: Adolfo Lutz, Agglutinin, Albert Calmette, Antibody, Anticoagulant, Antivenom, Bacteriology, Batrachia, Bernardo Houssay, Bothrops, Bothrops brazili, Bothrops jararaca, Botucatu, Brazil, Bronx Zoo, Bubonic plague, Campanha, Chironius, Cholera, Coagulation, Cobra, Coral snake, Crotalus, Cytotoxicity, Death, Diphtheria, Drymoluber, Elapidae, Enzyme, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Europe, Freeze-drying, Gastão Rosenfeld, George Albert Boulenger, Hemolysis, Herpetology, Horse, Immunization, Immunology, Instituto Butantan, José Moura Gonçalves, Louis Pasteur, Maurício Rocha e Silva, Medical research, Medicine, Minas Gerais, Mussurana, New York City, Niterói, ..., Ophiophagy, Pathology, Paul Ehrlich, Peptide, Physician, Physiology, Preventive healthcare, Protein, Proteolysis, Public health, Rabies, Rattlesnake, Rhachidelus, Rio de Janeiro, Robert Koch, São Paulo, Science and technology in Brazil, Scientist, Scorpion, Sheep, Skunk, Smallpox, Snake, Spider, Symptom, Tetanus, Toxicology, Typhoid fever, United States, Venom, Virology, Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, Yellow fever, Zoonosis. Expand index (34 more) »
Adolfo Lutz
Adolfo Lutz (6 October 1855 – 18 December 1940) was a Brazilian physician, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases.
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Agglutinin
An agglutinin is a substance that causes particles to coagulate to form a thickened mass.
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Albert Calmette
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute.
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Antibody
An antibody (Ab), also known as an immunoglobulin (Ig), is a large, Y-shaped protein produced mainly by plasma cells that is used by the immune system to neutralize pathogens such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
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Anticoagulant
Anticoagulants, commonly referred to as blood thinners, are chemical substances that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time.
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Antivenom
Antivenom, also known as antivenin, venom antiserum and antivenom immunoglobulin, is a medication made from antibodies which is used to treat certain venomous bites and stings.
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Bacteriology
Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them.
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Batrachia
The Batrachia are a clade of amphibians that includes frogs and salamanders, as well as the extinct allocaudates, but not caecilians.
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Bernardo Houssay
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
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Bothrops
Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America.
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Bothrops brazili
Bothrops brazili (Brazil's lancehead) is a venomous pitviper species endemic to South America.
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Bothrops jararaca
Bothrops jararaca — known as the jararaca (or the yarara) — is a species of pit viper endemic to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.
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Botucatu
Botucatu is a city in the southeastern region of Brazil and is located 224.8 km from São Paulo,the Capital of the State of São Paulo.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo is a zoo located within Bronx Park in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
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Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Campanha
Campanha is a town (município) in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
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Chironius
Chironius is a genus of New World colubrid snakes, commonly called sipos (from the Portuguese word cipó for liana), savanes, or sometimes vine snakes.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Coagulation
Coagulation (also known as clotting) is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot.
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Cobra
Cobra is the common name of various elapid snakes, most of which belonging to the genus Naja.
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Coral snake
Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be subdivided into two distinct groups, Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes.
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Crotalus
Crotalus is a genus of venomous pit vipers in the family Viperidae.
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Cytotoxicity
Cytotoxicity is the quality of being toxic to cells.
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Death
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
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Diphtheria
Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
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Drymoluber
Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.
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Elapidae
The Elapidae (ἔλλοψ éllops, "sea-fish") are a family of venomous snakes found in the tropics and subtropics around the world, with terrestrial forms in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, and South America as well as marine forms in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
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Enzyme
Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.
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Epidemic
An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less.
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Freeze-drying
Freeze drying, also known as lyophilisation or cryodessication, is a low temperature dehydration process which involves freezing the product, lowering pressure, then removing the ice by sublimation.
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Gastão Rosenfeld
Gastão Rosenfeld (born Budapest, July 26, 1912; died São Paulo, July 15, 1990), was a Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist, one of the co-discoverers of bradykinin, together with Maurício Rocha e Silva and Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, in 1949.
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George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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Hemolysis
Hemolysis or haemolysis, also known by several other names, is the rupturing (lysis) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of their contents (cytoplasm) into surrounding fluid (e.g. blood plasma).
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Herpetology
Herpetology (from Greek "herpein" meaning "to creep") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras).
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.
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Immunization
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent (known as the immunogen).
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Immunology
Immunology is a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.
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Instituto Butantan
Instituto Butantan (in modern Portuguese, Instituto Butantã) is a Brazilian biologic research center affiliated to the São Paulo State Secretariat of Health.
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José Moura Gonçalves
José Moura Gonçalves (1914–1995), Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and educator, one of the pioneers of biochemistry in the country.
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
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Maurício Rocha e Silva
Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (19 September 1910, Rio de Janeiro – 19 December 1983, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist.
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Medical research
Biomedical research (or experimental medicine) encompasses a wide array of research, extending from "basic research" (also called bench science or bench research), – involving fundamental scientific principles that may apply to a ''preclinical'' understanding – to clinical research, which involves studies of people who may be subjects in clinical trials.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.
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Mussurana
The mussurana or musurana (Portuguese muçurana) is a genus (Clelia) of colubrid snakes found in Central America and South America, from Guatemala to Brazil.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Niterói
Niterói is a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the southeast region of Brazil.
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Ophiophagy
Ophiophagy (Greek ὄφις + φαγία "snake eating") is a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes.
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Pathology
Pathology (from the Ancient Greek roots of pathos (πάθος), meaning "experience" or "suffering" and -logia (-λογία), "study of") is a significant field in modern medical diagnosis and medical research, concerned mainly with the causal study of disease, whether caused by pathogens or non-infectious physiological disorder.
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German Jewish physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
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Peptide
Peptides (from Gr.: πεπτός, peptós "digested"; derived from πέσσειν, péssein "to digest") are short chains of amino acid monomers linked by peptide (amide) bonds.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
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Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare (alternately preventive medicine, preventative healthcare/medicine, or prophylaxis) consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Proteolysis
Proteolysis is the breakdown of proteins into smaller polypeptides or amino acids.
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).
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Rhachidelus
Rhachidelus is a genus of snake in the family Dipsadidae.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Robert Koch
Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist.
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São Paulo
São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.
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Science and technology in Brazil
Science and technology in Brazil has entered the international arena in recent decades.
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Scientist
A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world.
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Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Skunk
Skunks are North and South American mammals in the family Mephitidae.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Symptom
A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" and πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, reflecting the presence of an unusual state, or of a disease.
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Tetanus
Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is an infection characterized by muscle spasms.
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Toxicology
Toxicology is a discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants.
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Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Venom
Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.
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Virology
Virology is the study of viruses – submicroscopic, parasitic particles of genetic material contained in a protein coat – and virus-like agents.
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Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (April 20, 1917, Silvanópolis, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil – July 28, 1998, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.
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Zoonosis
Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital_Brazil
