Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Venomous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crustacean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crustacean</span></a> from Mayan underwater caves provides new drug candidates <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-10-venomous-crustacean-mayan-underwater-caves.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-10-venomous</span><span class="invisible">-crustacean-mayan-underwater-caves.html</span></a></p><p>Diversely evolved xibalbin variants from remipede venom inhibit potassium channels and activate PKA-II and Erk1/2 signaling <a href="https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-024-01955-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/arti</span><span class="invisible">cles/10.1186/s12915-024-01955-5</span></a></p><p>"It was only discovered a few years ago that there also exist venomous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crustaceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crustaceans</span></a>—<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/remipedes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>remipedes</span></a> that look like centipedes and live in marine <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/caves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caves</span></a>... Xibalbanus tulumensis lives in the cenotes, which are the underwater cave systems on the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Yucatan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yucatan</span></a>"</p>