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Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches that has a blood anticoagulant property. This is fundamental for the leeches alimentary habit of hematophagy, since it keeps the blood flowing after the initial phlebotomy performed by the worm on the hosts skin. In 1884, the British physiologist John Berry Haycraft discovered that the leech secreted a powerful anticoagulant, which he named hirudin, though it was...


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