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Vampire Venom: Vasodilatory Mechanisms of Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Blood Feeding

Animals that specialise in blood feeding have particular challenges in obtaining their meal, whereby they impair blood hemostasis by promoting anticoagulation and vasodilation in order to facilitate feeding. These convergent selection pressures have been studied in a number of lineages, ranging from...

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Autores principales: Kakumanu, Rahini, Hodgson, Wayne C., Ravi, Ravina, Alagon, Alejandro, Harris, Richard J., Brust, Andreas, Alewood, Paul F., Kemp-Harper, Barbara K., Fry, Bryan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30626071
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11010026