Gage Tarrant wrote: > Could somebody please explain "copper-based" blood to me, and more about the > animals in S.America that have copper based blood? Thanks.
Couldn't find anything on animals in SA specifically, but several sites do discuss copper based blood: http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=89314165&form=6&db=m&Dopt=r Discusses copper based blood in arthropods and molluscs. Additional citation reference: http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=89136508&form=6&db=m&Dopt=r http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=77051464&form=6&db=m&Dopt=r A good review on the different blood pigments: http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/lwa631plants.html Interesginly the blood pigment of sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) is based on vanadium and is yellow-green http://www.srs.dl.ac.uk/OTHER/NEWSROUND/ISSUE_1/TEXT/blue.html This site indicates that (some?) humans have some copper in the blood, and that it is related to haemophilia. A possible link to the other information as to the blue bloods of long ago having copper based blood, and when mixed with iron based blood caused haemophilia. http://www.resource-world.net/Cu.htm Certain marine crustaceans have a copper-based molecule in their blood that serves the same purpose of oxygen transport as hemoglobin in our blood. http://innovations.copper.org/199812/water_health.html "The requirements for trace minerals such as copper are pretty steady among vertebrate animals," says Dr. Shearer. Interestingly, he adds, crustaceans, such as shrimp, lobster and crab, are in particularly need of copper because its serves as an oxygen carrier in their http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0857573.html Copper is present in minute amounts in the animal body and is essential to normal metabolism. It is a component of hemocyanin, the blue, It is needed in the synthesis of hemoglobin, the red, oxygen-carrying pigment found in the blood of humans, although it is not a component of hemoglobin. http://risg.gso.uri.edu/riseagrant/factsheets/crab.html Limulus is a true "blue blood" for, while human blood is red, the blood of this creature is a light blue. Human blood is red because it has a red pigment called hemoglobin which contains iron. The Limulus blood contains copper rather than hemoglobin thus giving the blood its blue color. This site is not related, but I ran across it in my search. Quit interesting, but I have not read most of it yet. http://www.httpcity.com/prophet00/LifeGodsDesign.html Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
