Apitoxin

Apitoxin, or honey bee venom, is a bitter colourless liquid; its active portion a mixture of proteins, which causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant. A honeybee can inject 0.1 mg of venom via its stinger. It may have similarities to sea nettle toxin.[1]

Components

The main component is melittin amounting to 52 %of venom peptides.[2]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Czarnetzki, B. M.; Thiele, T.; Rosenbach, T. (February 1990). "Evidence for leukotrienes in animal venoms". The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 85 (2): 505–509. doi:10.1016/0091-6749(90)90162-W. PMID 1968071.
  2. Meier J, White J. (1995). Clinical toxicology of animal venoms and poisons. CRC Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8493-4489-1.
  3. Adolapin

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