Thanks for this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@execonn.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:53 AM Subject: Re: CS>Blue Bloods & Other Interests
> 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: > silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
