Overviews of Toxins: Marine Natural Products: Diversity in Molecular Structure and Bioactivity; P.A. Scheuer Plant Toxins: The Essence of Diversity and a Challenge to Research; G.D. Manners Overview of Snake Venom Chemistry; A.T. Tu Critical Aspects of Bacterial Protein Toxins; B.R. Singh Origin, Structure, and Function: Structure and Function of Cobra Neurotoxin; C.C. Yang Structure and Function of Cobra Venom Factor: The Complementactivating Protein in Cobra Venom; C.V. Vogel, et al. A Case Study of Cardiotoxin III from the Taiwan Cobra (Naja naja atra): Solution Structure and Other Physical Properties; T.K.S. Kumar, et al. The Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Pyrogenic Toxin Family; G.A. Bohach, et al. Primary Structural Motifs of Conus Peptides; L.J. Cruj Hymenoptera Venom Proteins; D.R. Hoffman Mechanism of Action: Mechanism of Action of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxins; N. Sugimoto, et al. Binding Proteins of Synaptic Membranes for Certain Neurotoxic Phospholipase A2; M.C. Tzeng, et al. Pyrularia Thionin: Physical Properties, Binding to Phospholipid Bilayers and Cellular Responses; L. Vernon The Chemistry and Biological Activities of Natural Products AALtoxinand the Fumonisins; H.K. Abbas, et al. New Aspects of Amanitin and Phalloidin Poisoning; H. Faulstich, T. Wieland Actions of Banana Tree Extract on Smooth and Cardiac Muscles and in the Anesthetized Rat; Y.N. Singh, et al. The Early Expression of Myotoxicity and Localization of the Binding Sites of Notexin in the Soleus Muscle of the Rat; R.W. Dixon, J.B. Harris Fumonisin BI: Immunological Effects: The Influence of F BI to the Early Stage of Immune Response; E.A. Martinova Scientific and Medical Tools: K252a and Staursporine Fungal Alkaloid Toxins as Prototype of Neurotropic Drugs; P. Lazarovici, et al. Structure and Experimental Uses of Arthropod Venom Proteins; D. Jones Metamorphoses of a Conotoxin; E. Zlotkin, et al. Purification and Characterization of Nerve Growth Factors (NGFs) from the Snake Venoms; K. Hayashi, et al. Snake Venoms as Probesto Study the Kinetics of Formation and Architecture of Fibrin Network Structure; A. Azhar, et al. Fribolase: An Active Thrombolytic Enzyme in Arterial and Venomous Thrombosis Model Systems; F.S. Markland Detection, Diagnostics, and Therapy: Mass Spectrometric Investigations on Proteinaceous Toxins and Antibodies T. Krishnamurthy, et al. Detection of Staphylococcal Toxins; M.S. Bergdoll Detection of Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxins; C.L. Hatheway, J.L. Ferreira Detection of Botulinum Neurotoxins Using Optical Fiberbased Biosensor; B.R. Singh, M.A. Silvia Comparative Studies of Antisera against Different Toxins; N. Nascimento, et al. New Approaches in Antivenom Therapy; V. Choumet, et al. Distribution of Domoic Acid in Seaweeds Occurring in Kagoshima, Southern Japan; T. Noguchi 12 additional articles. Index.