Vampirism

Liheratore GT, Samson A, Bladin C, Schleuning WD, Medcalf RL. Vampire bat salivary plasminogen activator (desmoteplase) A unique fibrinolytic enzyme that does not promote neurodegeneration. Stroke. 2003 34 537-543. 

New-Generation Agents Desmoteplase is a genetically engineered version of the clot-dissolving factor found in the saliva of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundas. 

From the demons of Mesopotamia to those plaguing our own late-20th-century civilization, this comprehensive printer covers every aspect of magic and the occult since earliest recorded time. Spanning 5,000 years of world history, it covers every major civilization and includes sections on alchemy, the Devil, witchcraft, the cabala, astrology, the tarot, the Rosicrucians, Nostradamus, and vampires"... 

Ingrid has 7.5 pounds of candy for trick-or-treaters. She gives a vampire 0.25 pounds, a fairy princess 0.53 pounds, and a horse 1.16 pounds. She eats 0.12 pounds. How much candy is left ... 

Glover, David. 1996. Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press. 

Figure 8 Venomous animals with chemotherapeutic potential, (a) Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundas (http // www.Animalpicturesarchive.com)) (b) medicinal leech [Hirudo medicinalis)-, (c) oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis)-, (d) phantasmal poison frog [Epipedobates tricolor), (e) solitary tunicate sea peach Halocynthia aurantium), (f) glia monster (Heloderma suspectum). Photos (b)-(f) by I. Boyd (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License), H. Van (Public domain), L. Ghoul (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License), A. Rode (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License) and Arpingstone (Public domain), respectively. See website for photo credit (a).

In comparison, the vampire bat has a capacity for urea synthesis approximately 1000-fold greater than that of a human. A bat consumes one half of its weight in blood in 10-15 minutes so that the massive amount of protein that is metabolised produces a massive amount of ammonia which must be removed as quickly as possible. Indeed, it also ingests sufficient fluid so that it is too heavy to fly. Hence, it urinates very quickly. 

A complex biologically relevant odor, such as that of a fruit for fruit bats, may require fewer molecules overall for detection than each of its single components alone (Laska 1990 Laska and Hudson, 1991). Vampire bats (P/asmodws... 

Turning to a mammalian parasite, the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is very sensitive to butyric acid, a common compound given ofFby mammals. It detects 0.0039-0.00784 % (vol.) butyric acid. This is lower than the hmnan threshold (Schmidt and Greenhall, 1971). 

It is possible that the medieval legends about human vampires ( Dracula ) originated in the behavior of porphyria sufferers (avoidance of light, behavioral disturbances, and drinking of blood in order to obtain heme— which markedly improves some forms of porphyria). 

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Exactly what is a paranormal experience or phenomenon Para is derived from a Latin term for beyond. So paranormal means beyond normal, or things that do not fit what we experience through our five senses alone and which do not follow the laws we observe in nature and in science. Paranormal experiences and phenomena run the gamut from the awesome and marvelous, such as angels and miracles, to the downright terrifying, such as vampires and werewolves. 

The pace of aircraft development was such that even Fighter Command was confronted with a serious problem of obsolescence in 1950. The RAF s jet fighters in service at that date, the Gloster Meteor and the de Havilland Vampire, had straight wings, which were aerodynamically less efficient than swept-back ones. The earliest versions of the Meteor and Vampire had entered service in 1944 and 1946 respectively, but plans for their replacement were related to an assumption that a major war would be unlikely to occur until about 1957. Resources for research and development had been drastically reduced at the end of the war and it was decided to take a risk in concentrating on really big advances in... 

Gordon, K. E. (1993a). The deluxe transitive vampire. New York Pantheon Books. 

Oliveira, P.L. and Oliveira, M.F. (2002) Vampires, Pastuer and reactive oxygen species is the switch from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism a preventive anti-oxidant defence in blood-feeding parasites. FEBS Letters 525, 3-6. 

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