Borjon, L. J., de Assis Ferreira, L. C., Trinidad, J. C., Sasic, S., Hohmann, A. G., Tracey, W. D. (2025). Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom. Current biology : CB, 35(2):444-453. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Borjon et al. show that the extremely painful venom of velvet ants contains a cocktail
of peptides with different nociceptive mechanisms in insects and mammals. One particularly
potent and abundant ve...
