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 Question about fangs on elapids

Hey again it is me dan
I was wondering, the fangs elapids have, how do they work? are they like the vipers or colubrids
dan
02/21/06  03:44pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

they have front fixed fangs.
02/21/06  04:04pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

vipers fangs fold back against the rear of the mouth.Some snakes have fangs located in the back of the mouth.
02/21/06  04:07pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

no i know that much but how does the venom actually travel?
is it through a grrove in the fange or needle like?
dan
02/21/06  04:13pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

Sorry about that stupid me. All elapid and hydrophid snakes have a pair of fixed frontal poison fangs in front of the upper jaw. They have a proper and functional poison gland that is located between the eye and the back of the upper jaw. The poison fang has a venom delivery canal formed by the joining up of the two opposite edges of a groove. Towards the end of the fang there is an orifice through which the venom is discharged. Elapid venom is basically neurotoxic and the victims get killed as a result of failure of the respiratory system or cardiac arrest. It stops the transmission of stimuli from nerves to muscles resulting in paralysis. Neurotoxins stop the activities of the synapse that maintains the contact between the nerves and the muscles. gokhra, Naja species, keutey and shakini sap, Bungarus species, and rajgokhra, Ophiophagus hannah are common elapids, and the sea snakes like Hydrophis species, Lapemis species, Laticauda species, Microcephalophis species and Pelamis species are common hydrophids of Bangladesh. Of these gokhra and keutey live close to human habitations and can be considered as potentially dangerous to human life.



02/21/06  04:36pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

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Neurotoxins stop the activities of the synapse that maintains the contact between the nerves and the muscles.



Are those the joining points of the nerves and the venom gets in between these and stops comunication? thanks
dan
02/21/06  05:04pm

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   Message To: 03titmussd   In reference to Message Id: 660731


 Question about fangs on elapids

i think it may.
02/21/06  05:39pm

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 Question about fangs on elapids

Kind of...Fuppy did a cut-and-paste from somewhere, but it was a poor explantion. I’m too tired to explain the process here, now, but there are tons of information on the internet, just do a search. The synaptic gap is where the nerve fires the impulse to transmit a signal to the next receptor. When this gap is disturbed, it will interfer with the transmission of messages, causing neurological shut down if progression isn’t stopped.



02/21/06  07:24pm

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   Message To: Hammer   In reference to Message Id: 661041


 Question about fangs on elapids

Yes i did do a cut and paste.



02/21/06  07:40pm

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   Message To: Fuppy   In reference to Message Id: 661065


 Question about fangs on elapids

Hey as long as i help someone im good.
02/21/06  08:01pm


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