Ep 97 Snake Venom: Collateral Damage
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Snake Venom Toxic Effects
Some snake venom toxins have specific effects on our muscle cells, which is known as mio toxicity. These end up actually damaging or killing, primarily, our skeletal muscle cells. And this process of muscle cell breakdown leads to the release of a lot of engymes from our muscle cells and proteins that are very damaging to our organs,. So this process can actually lead to kidney failure. This is called rabdomialisis. It's not specific to snake bites, but it's a really important complication of the skeletal muscle breakdown that snake venom toxins can induce. That can then cause kidney failure and death. Your face has questions. Yesso. Ok, ok. Another place that ps
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