Apamin therapeutic effect on Parkinson's disease. Dopamine, which is depleted in this disease, will be released from midbrain dopaminergic neurons when these SK channels are inhibited. SK channels have also been proposed as targets for the treatment of epilepsy, emotional disorders and schizophrenia. Apamin Apamin is an 18 amino acid peptide neurotoxin found in apitoxin (bee venom). Dry bee venom consists of 2–3% of apamin. Apamin selectively blocks SK channels, a type of Ca-activated K channel expressed in the central nervous system. Toxicity is caused by only a few amino acids, these are cysteine, lysine, arginine, arginine and histidine. These amino
The Venom Trees of Sunga Venom Trees of Sunga" definitively places Kukulkan in the "Viagens" universe. Roland J. Green, writing for the "Chicago Sun-Times", called the book "light without being fluffy ... [w]itty and briskly paced, with a number of digs at the New Age world-view." The Venom Trees of Sunga The Venom Trees of Sunga is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the twelfth book in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series and the second in its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Kukulkan. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in November 1992. An E-book