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"The blood of the horseshoe crab provides a valuable medical product critical to maintaining the safety of many drugs and devices used in medical care," said the Maryland Department of Natural ...
The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item for fishing bait ...
Fishermen harvest horseshoe crabs so the animals can be used as bait and so their blood can be used to make medical products. Conservationists have long pushed to limit the harvest of the animals ...
Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus. Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) is an aqueous extract of motile blood cells from the Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus.LAL reacts with bacterial endotoxins such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are components of the bacterial capsule, the outermost membrane of cell envelope of gram-negative bacteria.
The blood of a horseshoe crab contains cells known as amebocytes. [62] These play a similar role to the white blood cells of vertebrates in defending the organism against pathogens . [ 63 ] Amebocytes from the blood of Limulus polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in ...
Soderhall K, Levin J, Armstrong PB. The effects of β 1,3-glucans on blood coagulation and amebocyte release in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Biol Bull. 1985;169:661-674. Roth RI, Levin J, Behr S. A modified Limulus amebocyte lysate test with increased sensitivity for detection of bacterial endotoxin. J Lab Clin Med. 1989;114:306-311.
Horseshoe crab blood harvests have virtually doubled since 2017, with nearly 1 million horseshoe crabs harvested for their blood in 2022. A synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood tests are ...
Atlantic horseshoe crab on the shore at Brighton Beach, New York City. The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of horseshoe crab, a kind of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. [1] It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America. [1]