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Copper-64

Copper-64

beta and positron emitter with a half-life of 12.82 hr. Used in the study of wilsons disease and in brain scans for tumours.


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Re: Blood is always red, never blue.

... like the Horseshoe crab have blue blood, this is because they do not use hemoglobin to attract oxygen (iron based) but instead use hemocyanin (copper based) it must be a more efficent way of delivering oxygen to the cells as they have survived all the great extinctions

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by ablettakbar
Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:06 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Blood is always red, never blue.
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Blood is always red, never blue.

... anymore then. Blood is blue if you have haemocyanin instead of haemoglobin, but that require you to be a horseshoe crab or similar, which utilizes copper instead of iron to carry oxygen. And I do not think we are talking about marine arthropods here...

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by biohazard
Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:50 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Blood is always red, never blue.
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Theories - Origin of Life

... vanadium ions. In octopus, spiders, scorpions, crabs, respiratory pigment of the blood is hemocyanin, in which iron is present instead of copper (Cu2 +). Combines with oxygen of air is blue hemocyanin, and by giving oxygen to tissues - a few discolored. As a result, the arteries flowing ...

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by LeoPol
Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:30 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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Re: Global Crayfish Distribution and Interspecific Competition

By the way it's healthy. There's the supply of vitamin D and A as well as calcium and potassium, copper and zinc in crayfish. :)

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by Francol
Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:30 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Global Crayfish Distribution and Interspecific Competition
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preserve FISH sperm.

... of containing various naturally occurring trace elements, many of which have been shown to have antiseptic (silver & zinc), anti-inflammatory (copper) or anti-allergic (manganese) properties. Well as i understand i just have to dissect the testicles, and put them in the STERIMAR solution which ...

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by blueberry94
Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:06 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: preserve FISH sperm.
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