HEALING RITUALS AND SACRED SERPENTS

被引：56

作者：

ANGELETTI, LR

AGRIMI, U

CURIA, C

FRENCH, D

MARIANICOSTANTINI, R

机构：

[1] UNIV CASSINO,DEPT PHILOL & HIST,MED HIST SECT,CASSINO,ITALY

[2] IST SUPER SANITA,VET LAB,I-00161 ROME,ITALY

[3] UNIV ROME LA SAPIENZA,DEPT EXPTL MED,I-00185 ROME,ITALY

[4] GABRIELE DANNUNZIO UNIV,INST HUMAN PATHOL,CHIETI,ITALY

来源：

LANCET | 1992年 / 340卷 / 8813期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1016/0140-6736(92)90480-Q

中图分类号：

R5 [内科学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100201 ;

摘要：

Votive tablets found during the excavation of shrines of the Graeco-Roman god of medicine (Asklepios or Aesculapius) associate the healing of superficial lesions with contact with the oral cavity of non-poisonous serpents. We suggest that this may have been the empirical exploitation of the healing properties of salivary growth factors. By immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting we demonstrate the expression of the epidermal growth factor and its receptor in the oral, upper digestive, and salivary epithelia of Elaphe quatuorlineata, a species probably used in healing rituals.

引用

页码：223 / 225

页数：3

共 22 条

[1]

ALDROVANDI U, 1640, SERPENTUM DRACONUM H, P67

[2]

ANGLETTI LR, 1989, MED SECOLI, V1, P273

[3]

ANGLETTI LR, 1991, TRENDS EXP MED, V1, P4

[4]

BISHOP JM, 1985, RNA TUMOR VIRUSES S, V2, P249

[5]

BROWN GL, 1986, J EXP MED, V163, P1319

[6]

Bruno S, 1990, SERPENTI ITALIA EURO

[7] EPIDERMAL GROWTH-FACTOR AND TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-ALPHA [J].

BURGESS, AW .

BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN, 1989, 45 (02) :401-424

[8] EPIDERMAL GROWTH-FACTOR [J].

CARPENTER, G ;

COHEN, S .

ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY, 1979, 48 :193-216

[9]

COHEN S, 1962, J BIOL CHEM, V237, P1555

[10]

EDELSTEIN L, 1945, ASCLEPIUS, P233

← 1 2 3 →