Soumik Bhattacharjee1*, Chanchal Koley2, Sovan Pal3, Rahul Dey4, Arindam Chatterjee5
Gupta College of Technological Sciences, Asansol, West Bengal-713301.
Bengal College of Pharmaceutical Technology, Dubrajpur, Birbhum, West Bengal-731123.
Envenomation by snakes is a significant socio-medical issue. More than 100,000 people die from snake bites each year, which affect over 2.5 million people. Although snake bruises may be fatal, snake venom is a naturally occurring an organic resource that includes a number of elements that may have medicinal utility. Ayurveda, homoeopathy, and folk medicine all use venom to treat a variety of pathophysiological diseases. With the development of biotechnology, the effectiveness of such treatments has been demonstrated by isolating the medicinal characteristics of venom components. This review will concentrate on specific elements of snake venom and how they are used to treat illness and prevent it. Numerous helpful substances have been discovered, most notably the disintegrins (eptifibatide and tirofiban), which have been demonstrated to be potent anti-platelet aggregation both in vitro and in vivo. While the original native compounds found in snake venom are typically unsuitable for therapeutic use, advances in pharmaceutical R & D made it possible to use the proteins found in snake venom as therapeutics for a variety of disorders based on the knowledge of their structural and functional properties. With their unique combination of ingredients, snake venoms hold enormous promise as cures for human illnesses. For thousands of years, nature has served as a source for therapeutic substances, and snake venoms are a particularly rich supply of bioactive compounds, including peptides, proteins, and enzymes with significant pharmacological functions. Furthermore, traditional Chinese medicine has made extensive use of the blood and bile duct of snakes. Protein fold structures have made it possible to create a wealth of peptides that interact specifically and very affinitively with human protein. This will aid in understanding the effects of each interaction and pave the way for the creation of potent medications that are specifically targeted at particular protein activities.