Sunday, 27 May 2012

Evolutionary conservation


In accession to the bovine and beefy tissue from which pharmaceutical-grade heparin is frequently extracted, heparin has aswell been extracted and characterised from the afterward species:

Turkey39

Whale40

Dromedary camel41

Mouse42

Humans43

Lobster44

Fresh baptize mussel45

Clam46

Shrimp47

Mangrove crab48

Sand dollar48

The biological action of heparin aural breed 6–11 is cryptic and added supports the abstraction that the capital physiological role of heparin is not anticoagulation. These breed do not acquire any claret agglomeration arrangement agnate to that present aural the breed listed 1–5. The aloft account aswell demonstrates how heparin has been awful evolutionarily conserved with molecules of a agnate anatomy getting produced by a ample ambit of bacilli acceptance to abounding altered phyla.

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