Starvation Time and Successive Collection Effects on Leeches Saliva Collection Quantity and Proteins Quality and Quantity in Wet Season

• Main Authors: Mohamed Alaama,, Helaluddin, ABM., Abbas Mohammad,, Ahmed Merzouk,, Abdualrahman M Abdualkader,, Mohamed Awang,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8039/1/07_Mohamed_Alaama.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8039/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/

The salivary gland secretion of the haematophagous animals, leeches, has attracted the attention of therapists since the extreme old ages due to its wide range of medical properties. Thus, many researches have been done to develop and optimize new methods to collect leech saliva with high quality an...