Talk:Caspian cobra

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Venom subsection for potential therapeutic use

Seems like there is some new research on the potential use of snake venoms (including N. oxiana) for therapeutic purposes, namely as an anticancer agent.

Wwwwwwwd (talk) 22:03, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Misleading Venom Section

I believe some sources have been twisted in favor of the Caspian cobra (N. oxiana) being "the most venomous cobra species".

1. NONE of the sources concludes that N. oxiana is the most toxic. What I read in the venom section are pieces of data from DIFFERENT studies listing LD₅₀ values of SOME Naja species a given project covers. Dilution scales, environmental factors, species of animals to be tested on, etc may NOT be identical, so it is not accurate to directly compare statistics from different literatures. For instance, N. oxiana on this league with an i.v. value of 0.96 mg/kg is the second least toxic Naja species, only above N. nigricollis while N. atra is the most toxic among the nine true cobras it covers. I suggest to remove such comparative statements to leave all the data & species a particular project covers. We could only state that Species A is the most toxic among A, B, C & D tested by this project while E is the one among E, F, G & H the other project concludes.
2. Some sources do not support claims that they are made to support. I personally have a copy of the book Snakes of Medical Importance - Asia-Pacific Region (Ref no.33 & 36, duplicated) on hand. The purported pages mention NOTHING about the mortality rate of N. oxiana, nor does this source mention anything about the most toxic Naja at all. Verification or clean-up ought to be done on this section to ensure all the statistics are valid.

RoyalRover (talk) 17:25, 13 September 2023 (UTC)