The saliva of the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, contains a compound that might yield a new drug for dissolving blood clots in dtroke victims.
When a vampire bat bites an animals, its saliva introduces an anticlotting agent to keep the blood from clotting and allow it to continue to flow. Scientist new report that this compound busts up blood clot as good as the standard mesicine prescribed for treating stroke. More than this, the compound from the vampire bats salive avoids one of the drugs mojor side effect.
The standard clot-busting drug prescribe ie the tissue plasminogen activator(tPA), which shows the side effect od initiating damage to brain neurons. Animals studies have established that tPA leads to the death of neurons. Although scientist are still specific mechanism of the manage.
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