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Black Widow Spider

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Definition: A venomous New World spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the abdomen.  /microbiol /parasitol /virol permitted; bite: coord IM with ARACHNIDISM (IM)    Other names Latrodectus mactans; mactans, Latrodectus; mactan, Latrodectus; Widow Spiders, Black; Widow Spider, Black; Spiders, Black Widow; Spider, Black Widow; Latrodectus mactan; Black Widow Spiders
 
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSource
latrocrustatoxin  0   *Spider Venoms Black Widow Spider. Gen Pharmacol 1997 Jan;28(1):159-66
latrodectin  0   *Spider Venoms Black Widow Spider. Eur J Biochem 1995 May 15;230(1):322-8
XTx protein, Latrodectus  0   *Spider Venoms Black Widow Spider. Ann N Y Acad Aci 1994 Mar 9;710:38-47
latroinsectotoxin  130810-27-4   *Spider Venoms Black Widow Spider. Neuroscience 1992;46(1):181-8
black widow spider venom  0   *Spider Venoms Black Widow Spider. J Neurochem 1983;41(2):395

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