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There is no report of induction of oral tolerance to Bothrops jararaca venom. Here, we induced oral tolerance to B. jararaca venom in BALB\/c mice and evaluated the specific tolerance and cross-reactivity with the toxins of other Bothrops species after immunization with the snake venoms adsorbed to\/encapsulated in nanostructured SBA-15 silica. Animals that received a high dose of B. jararaca venom (1.8 mg) orally responded by showing antibody titers similar to those of immunized animals. On the other hand, mice tolerized orally with three doses of 1 \u00b5g of B. jararaca venom showed low antibody titers. In animals that received a low dose of B. jararaca venom and were immunized with B. atrox or B. jararacussu venom, tolerance was null or only partial. Immunoblot analysis against the venom of different Bothrops species provided details about the main tolerogenic epitopes and clearly showed a difference compared to antiserum of immunized animals.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/toxins13120865","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T03:21:05Z","timestamp":1638847265000},"page":"865","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Oral Tolerance Induction by Bothrops jararaca Venom in a Murine Model and Cross-Reactivity with Toxins of Other Snake Venoms"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9647-7687","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lilian Rumi","family":"Tsuruta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biopharmaceuticals Laboratory, Butantan Institute, S\u00e3o Paulo 05503-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0650-7764","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana Maria","family":"Moro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biopharmaceuticals Laboratory, Butantan Institute, S\u00e3o Paulo 05503-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1896-9074","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Denise V.","family":"Tambourgi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Immunochemistry Laboratory, Butantan Institute, S\u00e3o Paulo 05503-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1746-9465","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Osvaldo Augusto","family":"Sant\u2019Anna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Immunochemistry Laboratory, Butantan Institute, S\u00e3o Paulo 05503-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1245","DOI":"10.1074\/mcp.M112.019331","article-title":"Peptidomics of three Bothrops snake venoms: Insights into the molecular diversification of proteomes and peptidomes","volume":"11","author":"Tashima","year":"2012","journal-title":"Mol. 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