Ingestive behaviour and physiology of the medicinal leech
Abstract
Ingestion lasts 25 min in Hirudo medicinalis and is characterized by pharyngeal peristalsis which fills the crop. This peristalsis has an initial rate of 2.4
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© 1988 The Company of Biologists Limited. Accepted 16 February 1988. We thank David R. Smith and David Zundel for technical assistance with some of these experiments. This research was supported by PHS grants NS-14482 and NS-24077 to CML.Attached Files
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- NS-14482
- U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
- NS-24077
- U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
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