--%>
Assignment Help - homework help

Vascular lesions

Vascular lesions caused by the leeches on the blood vessels of their host cause blood naturally to coagulate. How does the leech resolve this trouble as it could be predicted that the ingested blood would coagulate within its body?

E

Expert

Verified

Ingested blood doesn’t coagulate within the leech (that is, Hirudo medicinalis) as in its saliva there is a potent anticoagulant substance, a protein termed as hirudin.

In past, leeches were largely employed as medical treatment. These days hirudotherapy is being employed in patients with extensive and chronic inflammation of skin, in prevention against tissue necrosis subsequent to some surgeries and in some others fields of Medicine.

   Related Questions in Biology

  • Q : Ethnicity-Charachetstic of

    The term ethnicity refers to the ethnic composition of a group or organization. Census statistics indicate that between 2000 and 2050 not only will the U.S. population increase from 281 to 392 million, but the racial mix will change dramatically. These changes in the racial mix of the overall pop

    		•
  • Q : Description of respiratory pigments in

    Give a brief description of respiratory pigments? Which respiratory pigment present in arthropods? Which analogous molecule present in humans?

    		•
  • Q : Question on the effect of product falls

    Normal 0 false false

  • Q : Motor activity of left side of body or

    How is it structurally described that motor activity of left side of body is controlled by the right cerebral hemisphere and motor activity of right side of the body is controlled by left cerebral hemisphere?

    		•
  • Q : Male and the female gonads in humans

    What do you mean by gonads? Explain the male and the female gonads in humans?

    		•
  • Q : Main inter-specific ecological

    Write down the main inter-specific ecological interactions?

    		•
  • Q : Food bolus passes from the stomach to

    Describe the name that food bolus passes from the stomach to duodenum? Answer: The partly digested and semi fluid food bolus which leaves the stomach and enters the

    		•
  • Q : Define the term Operations Management

    Operations Management: It deals with the design and management of processes, products, services and supply chains. This considers the acquisition, development, and deployment of resources which firms required to deliver the services and goods their cl

    		•
  • Q : Types of neurons-function of

    According to the function of transmitted neural impulse what are the types of neurons? How dissimilar are the concepts of efference and afference of the neural impulse transmission?

    		•
  • Q : Does RNA molecule contain two

    Does RNA molecule contain two polynucleotide chains similar to DNA? Answer: The DNA has only two polynucleotide chains. RNA is made by just one polynucleotide chain.

    		•