Because the bat saliva clot-buster has no detrimental effect on brain cells, the time window of when it could be administered has greater potential for stroke treatment, the study says.

Bat Saliva Treats Stroke Victims? By ABC News. January 9, 2003, 1:58 PM. Jan. 9 -- Medications come in many different forms, from many different sources. But a vampire bat?

That’s where DSPA in vampire bat saliva comes in. Reporting in the journal Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers compared the effect of DSPA to that of a recombinant ...

Stroke drug from a deadly sourceSnake venom, vampire bat saliva kill in the wild but may save lives, scientists say. ... The vampire bat, a native of Central and South America, ...