Dr Christina Zdenek

Youngman, Nicholas J., Chowdhury, Abhinandan, Zdenek, Christina N., Coster, Kristian, Sundman, Eric, Braun, Ralph and Fry, Bryan G. (2021). Utilising venom activity to infer dietary composition of the Kenyan horned viper (Bitis worthingtoni). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, 240 108921, 108921. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2020.108921

Bourke, Lachlan A., Zdenek, Christina N., Neri-Castro, Edgar, Bénard-Valle, Melisa, Alagón, Alejandro, Gutiérrez, José María, Sanchez, Eladio F., Aldridge, Matt and Fry, Bryan G. (2021). Pan-American lancehead pit-vipers: coagulotoxic venom effects and antivenom neutralisation of Bothrops asper and B. atrox geographical variants. Toxins, 13 (2) 78, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/toxins13020078

Sousa, Leijiane F., Bernardoni, Juliana L., Zdenek, Christina N., Dobson, James, Coimbra, Francisco, Gillett, Amber, Lopes-Ferreira, Mônica, Moura-da-Silva, A.M. and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Differential coagulotoxicity of metalloprotease isoforms from Bothrops neuwiedi snake venom and consequent variations in antivenom efficacy. Toxicology Letters, 333, 211-221. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.08.009

Harris, Richard J., Youngman, Nicholas J., Zdenek, Christina N., Huynh, Tam M., Nouwens, Amanda, Hodgson, Wayne C., Harrich, David, Dunstan, Nathan, Portes-Junior, José A. and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Assessing the binding of venoms from aquatic elapids to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor orthosteric site of different prey models. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21 (19) 7377, 1-13. doi: 10.3390/ijms21197377

Zdenek, Christina N., Llinas, Joshua, Dobson, James, Allen, Luke, Dunstan, Nathan, Sousa, Leijiane F., Moura da Silva, Ana M. and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Pets in peril: the relative susceptibility of cats and dogs to procoagulant snake venoms. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, 236 108769, 108769. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2020.108769

Harris, Richard J., Zdenek, Christina N., Nouwens, Amanda, Sweeney, Charlotte, Dunstan, Nathan and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). A symmetry or asymmetry: functional and compositional comparison of venom from the left and right glands of the Indochinese spitting cobra (Naja siamensis). Toxicon: X, 7 100050, 100050. doi: 10.1016/j.toxcx.2020.100050

Bourke, Lachlan A., Youngman, Nicholas J., Zdenek, Christina N., op den Brouw, Bianca, Violette, Aude, Fourmy, Rudy and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Trimeresurus albolabris snakebite treatment implications arising from ontogenetic venom comparisons of anticoagulant function, and antivenom efficacy. Toxicology Letters, 327, 2-8. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.03.009

Harris, Richard J., Zdenek, Christina N., Debono, Jordan, Harrich, David and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Evolutionary interpretations of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor targeting venom effects by a clade of Asian viperidae snakes. Neurotoxicity Research, 38 (2), 312-318. doi: 10.1007/s12640-020-00211-2

Zdenek, Christina N., Youngman, Nicholas J., Hay, Chris, Dobson, James, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke, Milanovic, Leontina and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). Anticoagulant toxicity of black snake (Elapidae: Pseudechis) venoms: Potency, mechanisms, and antivenom efficacy. Toxicology Letters, 330, 176-184. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.05.014

Harris, Richard J., Zdenek, Christina N., Harrich, David, Frank, Nathaniel and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). An appetite for destruction: detecting prey-selective binding of α-neurotoxins in the venom of Afro-Asian elapids. Toxins, 12 (3) 205, 205. doi: 10.3390/toxins12030205

Grashof, Dwin, Zdenek, Christina N., Dobson, James S., Youngman, Nicholas J., Coimbra, Francisco, Benard-Valle, Melisa, Alagon, Alejandro and Fry, Bryan G. (2020). A web of coagulotoxicity: failure of antivenom to neutralize the destructive (non-clotting) fibrinogenolytic activity of Loxosceles and Sicarius spider venoms. Toxins, 12 (2) toxins12020091, 91. doi: 10.3390/toxins12020091

Zdenek, Christina N., den Brouw, Bianca op, Dashevsky, Daniel, Gloria, Alexandra, Youngman, Nicholas, Watson, Ebony, Green, Patrick, Hay, Chris, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Clinical implications of convergent procoagulant toxicity and differential antivenom efficacy in Australian elapid snake venoms. Toxicology Letters, 316, 171-182. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2019.08.014

Zdenek, Christina N., Harris, Richard J., Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Youngman, Nicholas J., Dobson, James S., Debono, Jordan, Khan, Muzaffar, Smith, Ian, Yarski, Mike, Harrich, David, Sweeney, Charlotte, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). A taxon-specific and high-throughput method for measuring ligand binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Toxins, 11 (10) 600, 600. doi: 10.3390/toxins11100600

Bittenbinder, Mátyás A., Dobson, James S., Zdenek, Christina N., op den Brouw, Bianca, Naude, Arno, Vonk, Freek J. and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Differential destructive (non-clotting) fibrinogenolytic activity in Afro-Asian elapid snake venoms and the links to defensive hooding behavior. Toxicology in Vitro, 60, 330-335. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2019.05.026

Zdenek, Christina N., Hay, Chris, Arbuckle, Kevin, Jackson, Timothy N.W., Bos, Mettine H.A., op den Brouw, Bianca, Debono, Jordan, Allen, Luke, Dunstan, Nathan, Morley, Terry, Herrera, María, Gutiérrez, José M., Williams, David J. and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Coagulotoxic effects by brown snake (Pseudonaja) and taipan (Oxyuranus) venoms, and the efficacy of a new antivenom. Toxicology in Vitro, 58, 97-109. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2019.03.031

Youngman, Nicholas J., Debono, Jordan, Dobson, James S., Zdenek, Christina N., Harris, Richard J., op den Brouw, Bianca, Coimbra, Francisco C. P., Naude, Arno, Coster, Kristian, Sundman, Eric, Braun, Ralph, Hendrikx, Iwan and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Venomous landmines: Clinical implications of extreme coagulotoxic diversification and differential neutralization by antivenom of venoms within the viperid snake genus Bitis. Toxins, 11 (7) 422, 422. doi: 10.3390/toxins11070422

Dobson, James S., Zdenek, Christina N., Hay, Chris, Violette, Aude, Fourmy, Rudy, Cochran, Chip and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Varanid lizard venoms disrupt the clotting ability of human fibrinogen through destructive cleavage. Toxins, 11 (5) 255, 255. doi: 10.3390/toxins11050255

Youngman, Nicholas J., Zdenek, Christina N., Dobson, James S., Bittenbinder, Matyas A., Gillett, Amber, Hamilton, Brett, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke, Veary, Andrew, Veary, Elle and Fry, Bryan G. (2019). Mud in the blood: Novel potent anticoagulant coagulotoxicity in the venoms of the Australian elapid snake genus Denisonia (mud adders) and relative antivenom efficacy. Toxicology Letters, 302, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.11.015

Bittenbinder, Mátyás A., Zdenek, Christina N., op den Brouw, Bianca, Youngman, Nicholas J., Dobson, James S., Naude, Arno, Vonk, Freek J. and Fry, Bryan G. (2018). Coagulotoxic Cobras: Clinical Implications of Strong Anticoagulant Actions of African Spitting Naja Venoms That Are Not Neutralised by Antivenom but Are by LY315920 (Varespladib). Toxins, 10 (12) 516, 516. doi: 10.3390/toxins10120516

Sousa, Leijiane F., Zdenek, Christina N., Dobson, James S., Op den Brouw, Bianca, Coimbra, Francisco, Gillett, Amber, Del-Rei, Tiago H M, Chalkidis, Hipócrates de M, Sant'Anna, Sávio, Teixeira-da-Rocha, Marisa M., Grego, Kathleen, Travaglia Cardoso, Silvia R., Moura da Silva, Ana M. and Fry, Bryan G. (2018). Coagulotoxicity of Bothrops (Lancehead Pit-Vipers) venoms from Brazil: differential biochemistry and antivenom efficacy resulting from prey-driven venom variation. Toxins, 10 (10) 411. doi: 10.3390/toxins10100411

Coimbra, Francisco C. P., Dobson, James, Zdenek, Christina N., Op den Brouw, Bianca, Hamilton, Brett, Debono, Jordan, Masci, Paul, Frank, Nathaniel, Ge, Lilin, Kwok, Hang Fai and Fry, Bryan G. (2018). Does size matter? Venom proteomic and functional comparison between night adder species (Viperidae: Causus) with short and long venom glands. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology, 211, 7-14. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2018.05.003

Oulion, Brice, Dobson, James S., Zdenek, Christina N., Arbuckle, Kevin, Lister, Callum, Coimbra, Francisco C. P., Op den Brouw, Bianca, Debono, Jordan, Rogalski, Aymeric, Violette, Aude, Fourmy, Rudy, Frank, Nathaniel and Fry, Bryan G. (2018). Factor X activating atractaspis snake venoms and the relative coagulotoxicity neutralising efficacy of African antivenoms. Toxicology Letters, 288, 119-128. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.02.020

Lister, Callum, Arbuckle, Kevin, Jackson, Timothy N. W., Debono, Jordan, Zdenek, Christina N., Dashevsky, Daniel, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke, Hay, Chris, Bush, Brian, Gillett, Amber and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). Catch a tiger snake by its tail: differential toxicity, co-factor dependence and antivenom efficacy in a procoagulant clade of Australian venomous snakes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 202, 39-54. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2017.07.005

Rogalskia, Aymeric, Rowley, Paul, Soerensen, Christoffer, op den Brouw, Bianca, Lister, Callum, Dashevsky, Daniel, Arbuckle, Kevin, Gloria, Alexandra, Zdeneka, Christina N., Casewell, Nicholas R., Gutiérrez, José María, Mascig, Paul, Wüster, Wolfgang, Alia, Syed A., Frank, Nathaniel and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). Differential procoagulant effects of saw-scaled viper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Echis) snake venoms on human plasma and the narrow taxonomic ranges of antivenom efficacies. Toxicology Letters, 280, 159-170. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2017.08.020

Heinsohn, Robert, Zdenek, Christina N., Cunningham, Ross B., Endler, John A. and Langmore, Naomi E. (2017). Tool-assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music. Science Advances, 3 (6) e1602399, e1602399. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602399

Zdenek, C. N., Heinsohn, R. and Langmore, N. E. (2017). Vocal individuality, but not stability, in wild palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus). Bioacoustics-The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording, 27 (1), 27-42. doi: 10.1080/09524622.2016.1272004

Keighley, M. V., Langmore, N. E., Zdenek, C. N. and Heinsohn, R. (2017). Geographic variation in the vocalizations of Australian palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus). Bioacoustics, 26 (1), 91-108. doi: 10.1080/09524622.2016.1201778

Zdenek, C. N. (2017). A prolonged agonistic interaction between two Papuan Frogmouths Podargus papuensis. Australian Field Ornithology, 34, 26-29. doi: 10.20938/afo34026029

Jackson, Timothy N. W., Koludarov, Ivan, Ali, Syed A., Dobson, James, Zdenek, Christina N., Dashevsky, Daniel, Op den Brouw, Bianca, Masci, Paul P., Nouwens, Amanda, Josh, Peter, Goldenberg, Jonathan, Cipriani, Vittoria, Hay, Chris, Hendrikx, Iwan, Dunstan, Nathan, Allen, Luke and Fry, Bryan G. (2016). Rapid radiations and the race to redundancy: an investigation of the evolution of Australian elapid snake venoms. Toxins, 8 (11), 309. doi: 10.3390/toxins8110309

Youngentob, Kara N., Zdenek, Christina and van Gorsel, Eva (2016). A simple and effective method to collect leaves and seeds from tall trees. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7 (9), 1119-1123. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12554

Zdenek, C. N., Heinsohn, R. and Langmore, N. E. (2015). Vocal complexity in the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus). Bioacoustics, 24 (3), 253-267. doi: 10.1080/09524622.2015.1070281

Zdenek, Christina (2020). Effects of Australian snake venoms on coagulation: differential potency, biochemistry, and antivenom efficacy. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.825

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