TY - JOUR. T1 - Microsatellite DNA markers for the study of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) population structure. AU - King, Tim L.. AU - Eackles, Michael S.. PY - 2004/9. Y1 - 2004/9. N2 - Twenty-two microsatellite DNA loci were identified and characterized for horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) collected from two Atlantic coast and one Gulf of Mexico site. These markers revealed a high degree of genetic diversity (8-35 alleles per locus), heterozygosity (25.0% to 100.0%), and allelic heterogeneity (69.8% of comparisons). Considerable regional differentiation was observed as genetic distances (chord) ranged between 0.25 and 0.45, and all FST values (0.014-0.092) were significant. These preliminary findings are consistent with patterns of regional differentiation observed using allozyme variation and contradictory to findings of limited gene flow reported for sequence variation at the mitochondrial DNA COI region.. AB - Twenty-two microsatellite DNA loci were identified and characterized ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Purification and amino acid sequence of kunitz-type protease inhibitor found in the hemocytes of horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus). AU - Nakamura, Takanori. AU - Hirai, Toshiaki. AU - Tokunaga, Fuminori. AU - Kawabata, Shun-Ichiro. AU - Iwanaga, Sadaaki. PY - 1987/1/1. Y1 - 1987/1/1. N2 - A low molecular weight protein protease inhibitor was purified from Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes. It consisted of a single polypeptide with a total of 61 amino acid residues. This protease inhibitor inhibited stoichiometrically the amidase activity of trypsin (K1=4.60×10-10 M), and also had inhibitory effects on α-chymotrypsin (K1=5.54×10-9M), elastase (K1=7.20×10-8 M), plasmin, and plasma kallikrein. However, it had no effect on T. tridentatus clotting enzyme and factor C, mammalian blood coagulation factors (activated protein C, factor Xa and α-thrombin), papain, and thermolysin. The complete amino acid sequence of this inhibitor was determined and its ...

Building on the success of the 2007 International Symposium on the Science and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs held at Dowling College, New York, USA, a second International Workshop on the Science and Conservation of Asian Horseshoe Crabs has been organized in Hong Kong. Asian horseshoe crabs represent an urgent conservation challenge. The status of horseshoe crabs in Asia is uncertain due to sparse data, but it is clear that there are multiple stressors that have caused declines in virtually all populations. Thus, there is an acute and urgent need for a conservation strategy focused on Asian species that will help guide scientific and conservation agendas into the future. Given this limited, but challenging objective, we have organized a workshop to develop a conservation strategy for Asian horseshoe crabs ...

Dwarakanath, R.S.,Ho, B.,Ding, J.L. (1997). Corrigendum: Recombinant COS-1 cells express carcinoscorpius rotundicauda factor C (Biotechnology letters (1997) 19 (357-361)). Biotechnology Letters 19 (10) : 1049-. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018467905559 ...

Every year the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) arrives on shore to spawn, a sight once taken for granted. However, in addition to the gradual climate changes impacting all ecosystems, commercial demand from the widespread application of Atlantic horseshoe crab blood in industrial endotoxin testing and steady use as eel and whelk bait has brought the future of this enduring species into question. In response, regulations have been adopted to enhance the traceability and record keeping of horseshoe crab harvest, which has historically been difficult to track. However, these regulations do not restrict or limit LAL harvest in any significant manner. Still, sometimes-lethal biomedical bleeding process and associated behavioral changes pose a risk to horseshoe crab viability after bleeding and once returned to the waters. As a result, regulators and environmentalists are concerned that current trends and overfishing of this marine arthropod will significantly impact the surrounding ecosystem.

Despite their name, horseshoe crabs are not true crabs. The horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus in popular name called Horseshoe Crab, is the only member of the Arthropoda subclass Xiphosura found in the Atlantic. Unlike true crabs, which have two pairs of antennae, a pair of jaws and five pairs of legs, horseshoe crabs lack antennae and jaws and they have seven pairs of legs, including a pair of chelicerae. Chelicerae are appendages similar to those used by spiders and scorpions for grasping and crushing. In addition, horseshoe crabs have book lungs, similar to spiders and different from crabs, which have gills. Thus, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than they are to other crabs. Their carapace is divided into three sections: the anterior portion is the prosoma; the middle section is the opithosoma; and the tail is called the telson. Horseshoe crabs have two pairs of eyes located on the prosoma: one anterior set of simple eyes and one set of lateral compound ...

Exhibits stronger antimicrobial activity against the Gram-positive bacteria (S.aureus (IC(50) is 7.4 ug/ml)) and fungi (C.albicans (IC(50) is 3.0 ug/ml) and P.pastoris (IC(50) is 0.1 ug/ml)) than Gram-negative bacteria (E.coli no inhibition at 100 ug/ml). Binds to chitin (4.3 uM are required to obtain 50% of binding). Does not cause hemolysis on sheep erythrocytes. Has no blocking activity on the P-type calcium channel.

Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is harvested commercially, used by the biomedical industry, and provides food for migrating shorebirds, particularly in Delaware Bay. Recently, decreasing crab population trends in this ...

Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is harvested commercially, used by the biomedical industry, and provides food for migrating shorebirds, particularly in Delaware Bay. Recently, decreasing crab population trends in this ...

Another interesting fact is that Horseshoe Crabs are quite literally blue blood. Oxygen is carried in the blood of the Horseshoe Crab by a molecule that contains hemocyanin, which contains copper causing the blood to turn blue when exposed to air. Most red-blooded animals carry oxygen in iron-rich hemoglobin causing their blood to turn red when exposed to air. The larger female Horseshoe Crab can reach up to 60 centimeters in length and can weigh up to 5 kilograms. The horseshoe-shaped carapace (shell) is smooth and brown, although in some environments the carapace is covered with epiphytic plants and epizooic animals (organisms which live on the outer surface of other organisms and can grow so much that the carapace is no longer visible). This is usually observed toward the end of the Horseshoe Crabs lifespan of approximately 19 years. During its formative years, the Horseshoe Crab sheds its carapace periodically or molts to accommodate its growing body. The new skeleton is flexible so that ...

Understanding local community attitudes toward wildlife and their environment is critical for making sensitive conservation planning and management decisions particularly for conservation-neglected species like Tachypleus gigas. A questionnaire-based interview was carried out on 388 local households from 12 different villages in Balasore, Odisha, between September 2018 and February 2019, which uses a theoretical mapping on attitudes toward horseshoe crabs. We found that 53% of interviewees accepted the presence of horseshoe crabs in their area, 27% have oppressive attitudes, and the remaining 20% were having mixed feelings. Most respondents (>60%) considered horseshoe crabs to bring tangible benefits such as esthetic, monetary, and cultural significance. However, a handful of respondents expressed oppressive attitudes because horseshoe crabs damage their fishing nets (

The crabs are very heavily bled - about 30 per cent or more of their blood is taken, and thats a fair amount, says Chris Chabot, professor of neurobiology at PSU and a co-author on the study. Approximately 20 to 30 per cent of those crabs do not survive, so we were curious if any of the surviving crabs experienced nearly lethal effects from the bleeding, he said.. The study, Sublethal Behavioral and Physiological Effects of the Biomedical Bleeding Process on the American Horseshoe Crab, was published recently in the journal The Biological Bulletin.. With funding provided by a N.H. Sea Grant development grant, Chabot, Watson and lead author Rebecca Anderson, a PSU graduate student, replicated the biomedical bleeding process to determine the potential impacts on the crabs behavior.. After capturing the crabs in New Hampshires Great Bay and transporting some of them back to Chabots lab at PSU and others to UNHs Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, the researchers monitored their movements for a ...

OCEAN CITY - State environmental officials this week announced a dramatic change in horseshoe crab harvest regulations along the Atlantic coast of Maryland including Ocean City and its coastal bays in a two-prong effort to preserve the prehistoric crabs and the migratory birds that feed off their eggs.. Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries service officials this week announced they are implementing new horseshoe crab regulations including a two-to-one, male to female harvest ratio, which will become effective April 1. Prior to the action taken by the DNR announced on Tuesday, there was no sex ratio limit.. While the action taken Tuesday does create new limitations on horseshoe crabs, it does avoid a more draconian solution. DNR officials are implementing the harvest ratio limit after conducting a technical analysis and reviewing public input on a range of management options including a closure of the entire horseshoe crab fishery. As a result, commercial watermen throughout ...

Every May and June, horseshoe crabs emerge from the Atlantic Ocean onto Coney Island Beach. Female horseshoe crabs arrive on the beach to lay their eggs, with their male counterparts literally in tow. Males grasp onto the back of the females shell using their specially adapted, hooked legs, sometimes two, three, or four males onto one female. When they arrive on the beach, female horseshoe crabs dig a hole in the sand and lay up to 20,000 tiny olive-green eggs inside. The males then rush to be the first to fertilize. This process is heavily tied to the lunar cycle and its effects on the tides. The mating begins when the moons force is strongest and the high tide allows the horseshoe crab to venture further onto the beach. As the force weakens, the water is never able to reach the eggs. Two weeks later, when the moons force peaks again, the eggs are ready to hatch and the water sweeps the newborns into the sea. While this timing has provided protection from the sea, the eggs face other ...

On the high tides of the new and full moons in spring, horseshoe crabs turn to mating. Thus when mid-May rolls around in New England, my thoughts turn to horseshoe crabs… hey I cant help it it is just the way my mind works. All of this probably has something to do with my youth, profitably spent on the beaches of Long Island Sound during Jacques Cousteaus heyday. But I digress!. About a week ago (Sunday, 16 May 2010 to be exact), Joan and I made our second annual trip to the Wellfleet Bay Mass Audubon Sanctuary in Wellfleet, MA (on Cape Cod) in search of horseshoe crabs and whatever else the day might bring. (Wildlife photographers learn quickly not to expect anything and to be prepared for everything.). The horseshoe crabs were there and actively mating… we probably saw about a dozen mating pairs and twice that many lone males.. This four shot sequence (taken over about 4 min) shows the process. The larger female tows the male around. At the water line (of the highest tides of the month), ...

Ding, J.L., K.C. Tan, S. Thangamani, K. Nicole, W.K. Seow, B.T.H. Hanh, J. Wang, B. Ho 2005 Spatial and temporal co-ordination of expression of immune response during Pseudominas infection of horseshoe crab, Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda. Genes and Immunity 6: 557-574 ...

Horseshoe crab hemolymph, specific for sialic acid, was used cytochemically as a peroxidase-conjugate to compare the localization of binding sites of this lectin with that of Concanavalin A (Con A) , which binds mannose and glucose, on various tissues and isolated organelles. Light microscopic studies revealed Con A-reactive sites in cilia, epithelium of coagulating gland and renal tubules, whereas conjugated hemolymph stained paneth cell granules, epididyma.l epithelium, muscle and nerve fibers. In human placenta, both Con A and conjugated hemolyrnph stained the basal lamina and the villar surface but with differing intensities. Ultra structurally, this difference was confirmed in that Con A bound heavily to microvilli but the basal lamina was generally nonreactive. Staining with conjugated hemolymph produced sparse but regular staining on the microvillar surface and the basal lamina was also frequently stained. Con A. binding to rat liver nuclear and mitochondrial membranes was demonstrated ...

Horeshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus are remarkable living fossils which have unique blood cells (amebocytes) that are used to test human vaccines for bacterial contamination. In the 1950s, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, not only discovered amebocytes but also found that they had special properties. If the amebocytes came into contact with bacteria, they would instantly coagulate around the bacteria and attack it. The Woods Hole scientists took this unique property of horseshoe crabs and developed a test for bacterial contamination using a horseshoe crab blood derivative called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL). This article describes discusses the medical, economic, and ecological importance of the horseshoe crab. Project Limulus is a research and community project which is working toward protecting the population of the horshoe crab.

Dawn, Samantha, and I spent Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at Slaughter Beach, Delaware. Out goal to see the annual migration and mating of the horseshoe crabs. Slaughter Beach is a horseshoe crab sanctuary where they are protected from harvesting. Horseshoe crabs are prehistoric. They come to the beaches every year between May and June during high tide and the full moon to mate and lay their eggs. We made our way to the beach Friday afternoon. There were no crabs in sight but the remnants of some dead ones from previous high tide. We came back after dinner. Watched the full strawberry moon rise. Still no crabs. We waited until near 10pm and still no crabs. We called it a night. On Saturday morning we went to the DuPont Nature Center and we could see crabs on the beach using their remote controlled 360 camera. So we went back to the beach around time for high tide and there they were. Here are some photos.. ...

An educational video for kids. This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of Horseshoe Crab Larvae shortly after they have hatched. Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are not crabs but are related to arachnids (spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites), and are the closest living relatives of the now extinct trilobites. Horseshoe crabs have three main parts to the body: the head region, known as the ‘prosoma’, the abdominal region or ‘opisthosoma’ and the spine-like tail or ‘telson’. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (0:26)

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded. View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-harvest-horseshoe-crab-blood-elizabeth-cox. During the warmer months, especially at night during the full moon, horseshoe crabs emerge from the sea to spawn. Waiting for them are teams of lab workers, who capture the horseshoe crabs by the hundreds of thousands, take them to labs, harvest their cerulean blood, then return them to the sea. Why? Elizabeth Cox illuminates the incredible properties of horseshoe crab blood. Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, animation by Anton Bogaty.. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible ...

This Horseshoe Crab Tail Necklace is made from the molding and casting of real found Horseshoe Crab Tails in recycled silver or bronze. As the Horseshoe Crabs grow they molt or shed their exoskeletons, the sheds wash up all over the beaches of the world. I collected the tail from a molt in Cape May, New Jersey, where H

Dead Horseshoe Crab (Limulidae). Horseshoe crabs found dead on the back near Fort Pulaski National Monument in Savannah, GA. The horseshoe crabs may have died after a mating event.. LimulidaeXiphosurahorseshoecrabaquaticmarineshelldeadspawnbeachsandshorearthropodtalearmor ...

Dead Horseshoe Crab (Limulidae). Horseshoe crabs found dead on the back near Fort Pulaski National Monument in Savannah, GA. The horseshoe crabs may have died after a mating event.. LimulidaeXiphosurahorseshoecrabaquaticmarineshelldeadspawnbeachsandshorearthropodtalearmor ...

The fine structure of the cardiac muscle of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, has been studied with respect to the organization of its contractile material, and the structure of its organelles and the cell junctions. Longitudinal sections show long sarcomeres (5.37 µ at Lmax), wide A bands (2.7 µ), irregular Z lines, no M line, and no apparent H zone. Transverse sections through the S zone of the A band show that each thick filament is ca. 180 A in diameter, is circular in profile with a center of low density, and is surrounded by an orbit of 9-12 thin filaments, each 60 A in diameter. Thick filaments are confined to the A band: thin filaments originate at the Z band, extend through the I band, and pass into the A band between the thick filaments. The sarcolemmal surface area is increased significantly by intercellular clefts. Extending into the fiber from these clefts and from the sarcolemma, T tubules pass into the fiber at the A-I level. Each fibril is enveloped by a profuse ...

Rapid concentration jumps of Ins(1,4,5)P3 or ATP were made inside Limulus ventral photoreceptors by flash photolysis of the parent caged compounds. In intact ventral photoreceptors, the photolysis flash evokes a maximum amplitude light-activated current; therefore, a procedure was developed for uncoupling phototransduction by blocking two of the initial reactions in the cascade, rhodopsin excitation and G protein activation. Rhodopsin was inactivated by exposure to hydroxylamine and bright light. This procedure abolished the early receptor potential and reduced the quantum efficiency by 325 +/- 90-fold (mean +/- SD). G protein activation was blocked by injection of guanosine-5-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDP beta S). GDP beta S injection reduced the quantum efficiency by 1,881 +/- 1,153-fold (mean +/- SD). Together hydroxylamine exposure and GDP beta S injection reduced the quantum efficiency by 870,000 +/- 650,000-fold (mean +/- SD). After the combined treatment, photoreceptors produced quantum ...

1JC9: The 2.0-A crystal structure of tachylectin 5A provides evidence for the common origin of the innate immunity and the blood coagulation systems.

horseshoe crab, large, primitive marine arthropod of the family Limulidae, related to the spider and scorpion and sometimes called a king crab (a name also used for the largest of the edible true crabs). The heavy dark brown exoskeleton, or carapace, is domed and shaped like a horseshoe. The body is divided into a broad, flattened, semicircular front part (the prosoma), a tapering middle part (the opisthosoma), and a pointed, spiky taillike part (the telson).. Horseshoe crabs have no jaws, and the mouth is flanked by a pair of pincerlike chelicera that are used to crush worms and other invertebrates taken as food. They have two compound, primary eyes and five simple, secondary eyes on top of the carapace, and two simple eyes near the mouth, under the carapace; additionally, the telson has photoreceptors. Five pairs of walking legs attached to the prosoma enable the animals to swim awkwardly or burrow through the sand or mud. They swim upside down, with the carapace forward and angled upward. The ...

Horseshoe crab hemocyte selectively responds to bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which depends critically on the proteolytic activity of the LPS-responsive serine protease zymogen factor C. In response to stimulation by LPS, the hemocyte secretes

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.. IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.. Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.. ...

I am in the beginning stages of an edition of prints Im thinking about calling Limulus. It is going to be similar in lay out and size to a piece I wrote about a few months ago called Archeopteris. Limulus polyphemus is the scientific name for the Horseshoe Crab. I was reading up on it for my design and one scientists argument was that we should not refer to the animal as a Horseshoe Crab because it is not as closely related to the crab family as the name would let on. It is instead more closely related to spiders as it resides in the Arthopod family. My initial intention for creating this print was to honor the longevity of the Limulus. I knew it was an old animal and its physical appearance has remained virtually unchanged through the eons. What I did not know was that the oldest Limulus fossil found to date is roughly 445 million years old. That puts it in the middle of the Ordovician period which is the period directly following the Cambrian period. They have survived 5 major mass ...

Aquatic ecologist Mark Beekey, Professor of Biology at Sacred Heart University, discusses Project Limulus, an ongoing research project to gather data on horseshoe crabs in Long Island Sound. Learn why horseshoe crabs are an economically and ecologically important species as well as a living fossil. Lecture presented by Faulkners Light Brigade and the Guilford Free Library, March 15, 2011. Duration 1:17:00.

A new fossil discovery in Britain captures a previously unseen stage in the evolution of these ancient arthropods - the transformation of two-branched legs into nearly identical but separately attached limbs, one of which was destined to disappear.. This fossil provides remarkable confirmation of the loss of a limb branch during horseshoe crab evolution, a change predicted by the common presence of two branches in the arthropods that appeared earlier, during the Cambrian explosion, said Derek E. G. Briggs, director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and lead author of a paper to be published online the week of Sept. 10 in the journal PNAS.. The fossil dates from the Silurian period, about 425 million years ago.. Modern horseshoe crabs (Limulus) have segmented legs at the front, which they use for walking and feeding. Their rear legs form flattened gills for breathing. In their ancestors, scientists believe, these functions were combined in limbs with two branches - one limb for ...

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital resource to the medical field. Its unique in more ways than one: the blue color and its ability to identify bacterial contamination in small quantities. Horseshoe crab blood contains a special amebocyte that is separated and then used in FDA testing. http://venomforsale.site/product/horseshoe-crab-blood/ ...

Grant and I got up early to go to the Deleware shore hoping to see the migrating Red Nut Red Knot who stops in to feast on the horseshoe crab eggs. We had no idea that we would see thousands of horseshoe crabs inthe process of laying eggs. It was pretty incredible. We of course went on a crusade to flip all the up turned crabs. We flipped many but there many more left either get picked up by the tide or become bird dinner. We think we saw the red nut, but cant confirm until we get home. We are headed back to the cabin (a tech free zone) and ill post pics when we return to DC.

The horseshoe crab plays an integral role in human health. The LAL compound and the LAL test save humans. Yet, the horseshoe crabs populations are declining.

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Possibly one of the weirdest animals on the planet. This video of the horseshoe crab shows how they come to the same area to mate and at the same time red knot shore birds are en route to the Arctic and stop to fatten up on the horseshoe crabs eggs for their flight north where they breed ...

All fossil records refute the Darwinists who maintain that living things gradually descended from one another. But fossils show that living things appeared suddenly and with all their complete and flawless structures, and that they never changed for as long as they existed. This clear evidence of Gods creation can never be explained by evolutionists. One of the specimens that evolutionists cannot account for is a horseshoe crab beetle fossilized in amber, 25 million years old. The horseshoe crab beetles deny evolution ...

Giant horseshoe crab washes up on a beach, photographed with a kid. Or did it? Is it really a feakishly huge horseshoe crab? Or a feakishly small kid? Or... something... else? ...

These horseshoe crabs are all ceramic, made from molds of real horseshoe crabs. If you dont see the one youre looking for, please email me.

From the hemocyte granules of the horseshoe crabs Limulus and Tachypleus. Factor B is activated by limulus clotting factor C. In peptidase family S1 (trypsin family)

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Horseshoe crabs use hemocyanin to carry oxygen through their blood. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue. Their blood contains amebocytes, which play a similar role to the white blood cells of vertebrates in defending the organism against pathogens. Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications.[28] This means there is a high demand for the blood, the harvest of which involves collecting and bleeding the animals, and then releasing them back into the sea. Most of the animals survive the process; mortality is correlated with both the amount of blood extracted from an individual animal, and the stress experienced during handling and transportation.[29] Estimates of mortality rates following blood harvesting vary from 3-15%[30] to 10-30%.[31][32][33] Approximately 500,000 crabs are harvested annually.[34] Bleeding may also prevent female horseshoe ...

From the hemocyte granules of the horseshoe crabs Limulus and Tachypleus. Factor C is activated by Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharides and chymotrypsin. Inhibited by antithrombin III. In peptidase family S1 (trypsin family ...

As we know, seawater is a virtual bacterial soup. Typical near-shore areas that form the prime habitat of the horseshoe crab can easily contain over one billion Gram-negative bacteria per milliliter of seawater. Thus, the horseshoe crab is constantly threatened with infection. Unlike mammals, including humans, the horseshoe crab lacks an immune system; it cannot develop antibodies to fight infection. However, the horseshoe crab does contain a number of compounds that will bind to and inactivate bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The components of LAL are part of this primitive immune system.. The LPS coat is an important reason of endotoxin and septic shock. And gram negative bacteria contain this coat. The Limulus anti-LPS factor (LALF) binds with gram negatives LPS coat and with this function, this protein can use on the medical and pharmaceutical areas.. Lots of horseshoe crabs are collecting by some manufacture companies and they are bleeding in some laboratories. During the bleeding ...

Depending on available funds, the Planning Committee will provide partial travel support to workshop registrants. Please note that all attendees are required to register. Travel support can be applied towards airfare, lodging, or meals. Preference will be given in order of priority to speakers, poster presenters, and registrants who are not presenting, especially those from the Asian region.. To apply for travel support, send an e-mail to Dr. Paul Shin ([email protected]) specifying ...

Abstract:. About 70 years ago it was coined that there were two types of Bacteria one Gram - Positive and one Gram-Negative (according to Dr. Hans Christian Gram) both of which can cause several health issues. Gram-negative bacteria freely roam around in our surrounding environment. So it is very much essential to test for the presence of the Endotoxin in medical instruments, including surgical and dialysis water which mainly gets in contact with the human bloodstream. The purpose of this test is to determine endotoxin by gel clot method. This is done using a lysate derived from heamolymph cells of Horse shoe crab Limulus polyphemus . The aim of this work is to find the presence of endotoxin in dialysis water since certain constituent of gram negative bacteria acting as endotoxin may cause serious illness like toxic shock, trauma which is potentially fatal for human. Overview:. What is Endotoxin ?. The outer membrane of Gram - negative bacteria with high molecular weight, similar to ...

Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hard-shelled, spear-tailed sea creatures crept along the ocean floors. Horseshoe crabs, a common sight along Connecticuts shoreline in May and June, have been the focus of this comprehensive study by Jennifer Mattei, an associate professor of biology at Sacred Heart University. Called Project Limulus (the Latin term for the crabs), the study tags and tracks the creatures with the goal of learning more about them and their prehistoric legacy. Questions arose about their migratory patterns and if, like sea turtles, they returned to familiar breeding ground every year, she said. In 2001, Mattei applied for a grant through the states license plate program dedicated to Long Island Sound preservation. Surrounded by posters depicting such topics as the evolution of life and age of reptiles and several coastal survey maps, the professor expressed concerns about the status of the regions horseshoe population.

Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hard-shelled, spear-tailed sea creatures crept along the ocean floors. Horseshoe crabs, a common sight in the months of May and June along Connecticuts shoreline, have been the focus of this comprehensive study by Jennifer Mattei, PhD, an associate professor of biology at Sacred Heart University. Called Project Limulus (the Latin term for the crabs), the study tags and tracks the creatures with the goal of learning more about them and their prehistoric legacy. Questions arose about their migratory patterns and if, like sea turtles, they returned to familiar breeding ground every year, she said. With regard to findings of the study, the biologist said, About 10 percent return, indicating that they are not like sea turtles. Surrounded by posters depicting such topics as the evolution of life and age of reptiles and several coastal survey maps, the professor expressed concerns about the status of the regions horseshoe population.