Muscle extract of hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, inhibits hemorrhagic activity of snake venoms.

The antihemorrhagic activity of muscle extract of hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, was tested on various snake venoms with hemorrhagic activity. The extract inhibited strongly hemorrhagic activity of venoms from Bitis arietans, Bothrops jararaca and Vipera latastei gaditana, and remarkably that of venoms from Agkistrodon halys blomhoffi, Bitis gabonica rhinoceros, Bitis nasicornis, Bothrops atrox asper, Crotalus horridus horridus and Vipera berus. The antihemorrhagic activity against eight other snake venoms was below the detection level.