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Presence Formerly Arkansas
Last published 2021
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Collis R. Geren

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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Univer

Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with University of Arkansas through 1998.

18 h-index 46 pubs 920 cited

  • Animals
  • Mice
  • Crotalid Venoms
  • Cattle
  • Molecular Weight
  • Female
  • Kinetics
  • Spiders
  • Chromatography, Ion Exchange
  • Spider Venoms
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Amino Acids
  • Lethal Dose 50
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Arthropod Venoms

Biography and Research Information

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Collis R. Geren's research has focused on the isolation and characterization of various toxins and enzymes from animal venoms and digestive fluids. His work includes the study of hemorrhagic proteinases from timber rattlesnake and northern copperhead venoms, as well as toxins from the brown recluse spider, *Loxosceles reclusa*. Geren has investigated the substrate specificity and enzymatic properties of these compounds, including their hemolytic activity and synergistic effects with other venom components like adenosine triphosphate. He has also examined the proteolytic activity in the digestive fluid of insect larvae, *Trichoplusia ni*. Geren's published work spans several decades, and his scholarship metrics include an h-index of 18, with 46 total publications and 920 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 18
  • Publications: 46
  • Citations: 920

Selected Publications

  • Sphingomyelinase D activity of brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) venom as studied by 31P-NMR: effects on the time-course of sphingomyelin hydrolysis (1998)
    Toxicon 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Detection of galactosyltransferase using chemically modified piezoelectric quartz (1988)
    Sensors and Actuators 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pathogenesis of hemorrhage induced by hemorrhagic proteinase IV from timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus horridus) venom (1987)
    Toxicon 39 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Neurotoxins and Necrotoxins of Spider Venoms (1986)
    Journal of Toxicology Toxin Reviews 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Potentiation of the toxicity of basic peptides from rattlesnake venoms by sodium acetate (1986)
    Toxicon 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Resistance of a hemorrhagic proteinase from timber rattlesnake venom to proteolytic degradation (1984)
    Toxicon DOI OpenAlex
  • Isotachophoretic and immunological analysis of venoms from sea snakes (Laticauda semifasciata) and brown recluse spiders (Loxosceles reclusa) of different morphology, locality, sex, and developmental stages (1984)
    Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The identity of bovine liver “Nothing dehydrogenase” (1983)
    International Journal of Biochemistry 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A thrombin-like enzyme from timber rattlesnake venom (1983)
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Enzymatic and hemolytic properties of brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) toxin and extracts of venom apparatus, cephalothorax and abdomen (1983)
    Toxicon 48 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Application of Nonlinear Regression Analysis to the use of Enzymes in The Determination of Substrate Concentrations (1982)
    Instrumentation Science & Technology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Contamination of commercially obtained Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen snake venom with Bungarus multicinctus and Naja naja atra snake venoms (1981)
    Toxicon 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Characterization of a fibrinogenase from northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen) venom (1981)
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparison of three phospholipases isolated from copperhead venoms (1981)
    Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Purification and characterization of a toxin from brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) venom gland extracts (1981)
    Toxicon 32 citations DOI OpenAlex

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