Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of blood-sucking leeches (such as Hirudo medicinalis) that has a blood anticoagulant property...
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Hirudo medicinalis (redirect from Hirudin therapy)
piercing the skin, they suck out blood while injecting anticoagulants (hirudin). Large adults can consume up to ten times their body weight in a single...
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with a sucker and feeding on blood, having first secreted the peptide hirudin to prevent the blood from clotting. The jaws used to pierce the skin are...
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Hirudin (stylized as HiRUDiN) is the fourth studio album by Canadian electronic music band Austra, released on May 1, 2020, by Domino worldwide and by...
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substances in the saliva of several hematophagous species, such as leeches (hirudin). Hematophagy is classified as either obligatory or facultative. Obligatory...
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albums—Feel It Break (2011), Olympia (2013), Future Politics (2017), and Hirudin (2020). In 2004, Stelmanis and Postepski played in a band called Galaxy...
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injection. Lepirudin is a recombinant hirudin derived from yeast cells. Lepirudin is almost identical to hirudin extracted from Hirudo medicinalis, having...
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recently, is the allosteric inhibitors. Hirudin and derivatives were originally discovered in Hirudo medicinalis: Hirudin Bivalirudin (transient inhibition...
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technological advances in genetic engineering the production of recombinant hirudin was made possible which opened the door to this new group of drugs. Before...
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the reptilase time is not prolonged in blood samples containing heparin, hirudin, or direct thrombin inhibitors, whereas the thrombin time will be prolonged...
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