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Snakebit opossums to aid antivenin study
By PAMELA LANDON
Staff Reporter
The opossum lay curled in the far corner of the metal case.
As Hank Guarisco, Lawrence graduate student, opened the cage and reached for it, the animal opened its mouth threateningly.
"There fell." It's so okay. I won't hurt you," he soothed as he picked up the opossum and began to stroke it. The animal relaxed.
The animal is one of five opossums that Guarisco plans to test for resistance to copperhead venom.
"This one has adapted really well. He's the tarnest of them all." Guarisco said.
He also plans to test the resistance of skinks and gorillas to the venom.
If the animals prove resistant to copperhead venom, he will conduct tests to determine why.
Gauricano his research "could lead to the possible development of a more effective, less dangerous antivirus than what is on the market today."
HIS PRELIMINARY work has involved collecting animals needed for the experiment and practicing his experimental techniques. He plans to begin the research soon, under the guidance of John Zimbrik, a radiator radiationophysic and inchemistry.
Guriano, who is working on a master's degree in radiation biophysics, said his interest in snakes had prompted him to do the research.
It's hard to say how I got interested in snakes. I've just always been interested in them since I was about five years old, especially anxious ones." he said.
Gurinisce has 20 copperheads at home from which he will extract the venom for his experiments.
"THE ALWAYS BEEN interested in venom, too, and how it does what it does. It's such a small amount of matter and yet it has such a drastic effect."
While doing some reading about snakes, Guarisco discovered several articles that gave him the idea for his research project.
Two Maryland researchers have found that opsonum serum, the noncellular portion of the blood, is just as effective as combo opsonum serum and combo smoke venom in mice. Garcia said so.
Hematoxic venom, found in snakes such as copperheads and rattlers, attacks blood cells and tissues. Neurotoxic venom, found
in coral snakes and cobras, attacks the nervous system, he said.
THE RESEARCHERS found oposums to be just as susceptible as other animal to neurotoxic venoms, Guarisco said.
He said he hoped not only to duplicate the test results of the researchers, but to expand the test to other animals.
*Skunks, for example, share the same habitat with many kinds of snakes. Perhaps they also have built up some kind of resistance to make venom.*
If opossum serum proves to be an effective combatant of hemotoxic venom, he will attempt to isolate whatever substance is present and equally blocks the venom's effectiveness.
He estimated that he could test the venom against a few different animals within a couple of months. But finding what it is in the serum that counteracts the venom could take years.
GUARISCO is excited about the research, despite the possibly lengthy process.
"It has a lot of potential. There is the possibility that it could revolutionize the antivirus industry," he said.
currently, horse serum is used to make antiviral and many people are allergic to it, he said. In fact, the reaction to the serum can be dangerous than the sake snake vaccine.
If there is something in opossum serum that is successfully fights toxemia versus *C. difficile*, it should be developed into an antivirus that might be safer than anything on the market today,
He said he would be using his own money to start the research. However, he said he thought he could get some research grants as soon as he had results to show.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Department investigated a sexual assault yesterday and released the evidence of indecent exposures and a rash of larceny and vandalism at the Malls Shopping Center.
KANSAN Police Beat
21-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was sexually assaulted after she accepted a ride while hitchhiking Wednesday, according to a sheriff's department report.
The woman was hitchhiking to Lawrence from Eudora when a van traveling west on K-10 Highway passed her, then returned to Eudora with a shirif's department spokesman said.
The van, occupied by four men, turned off on Mount Bleead路, about a mile east of Lawrence, where two of the men sexually assaulted her, the spokesman said.
She jumped out of the car, the spokesman said, and flagged down a ride back to Eudora where she contacted police.
Officers have descriptions of the men, the spokesman said.
LAWRENCE POLICE REPORTED that camera equipment valued at $1,070 was taken Wednesday from a residence at 1021 Connecticut St.
A police spokesman said the residence was entered through the rear door.
LAWRENCE POLICE Also REPORT three cases of indecent exposure yesterday. One occurred Tuesday evening in the 800 block of Kentucky Street one hour before a block of wall. 26th street and one Wednesday evening at Kennedy School and 1605 Davis Dr.
SEVEN INCIDENTS OF auto larceny and cars parked at the Mallia Shopping Center, 2411 Louisiana St., were reported to Lawrence police yesterday. The incidents which the police said probably occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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BY HAROLD CAMPBELL Staff Reporter
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, will visit the University of Warsaw in Poland next week to discuss the future of Warsaw exchange program. University of Warsaw exchange program.
Piekiewicki, who came to the United States from Poland in 1959, will leave Sunday for two weeks to negotiate possible changes in the status of Polish students attending KU and increased stipends for students attending the University of Warsaw.
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He said Warsaw would begin sending some of its less experienced professors to KU instead of its students.
"KU should benefit more from having faculty members here because it will be a learning experience for both American and European students, as well as faculty members," Pekkiwiewicz said.
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