Norma Luciene Lima da Silva

Bioactive Compounds of the Salivary Glands from Aedes aegypti with Anti-Hemostatic Action

Bruno Marcel Silva de Melo, Norma Luciene Lima da Silva, Rafaelli de Souza Gomes, Kely Campos Navegantes, Ana Lígia de Brito Oliveira, Lorena Almeida, Carolina Heitmann Mares Azevedo & Marta Chagas Monteiro · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2015

Blood-sucking arthropods evolved a salivary cocktail of anti-hemostatic, platelet antiaggregant and vasodilators components that neutralize the effects of hemostasis and allow a successful blood supply occurs. In salivary glands from Aedes aegypti was found several components wit...