{"id":2825,"date":"2026-06-08T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:04:49","slug":"caspian-cobra-in-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/caspian-cobra-in-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Cobra in Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We met this Caspian <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/elapidae\/naja\/naja-naja\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"314\">Cobra<\/a> in the grassy hills of eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/uzbekistan\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"773\">Uzbekistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This cobra may have the most lethal venom of all cobras &#8230; but its <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/venom\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"491\">venom<\/a> also shows potential to be an effective treatment for some cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Naja-oxiana-_8447-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ebrahim K, Vatanpour H, Zare A, Shirazi FH, Nakhjavani M. Anticancer Activity a of Caspian Cobra (Naja naja oxiana) snake Venom in Human Cancer Cell Lines Via Induction of Apoptosis. Iran J Pharm Res. 2016 Winter;15(Suppl):101-112. PMID: 28228809; PMCID: PMC5242357.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met this Caspian Cobra in the grassy hills of eastern Uzbekistan. This cobra may have the most lethal venom of all cobras &#8230; but its venom also shows potential to be an effective treatment for some cancers. Ebrahim K, Vatanpour H, Zare A, Shirazi FH, Nakhjavani M. Anticancer Activity a of Caspian Cobra (Naja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[285,313,772,135],"tags":[774,491,773],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elapidae","category-naja","category-oxiana","category-snakes","tag-cobra","tag-venom","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}