IN his recent letter in Nature 1, Wells gives an interesting account of the movements and action of the proboscis of the lugworm and of the part that it plays in burrowing. He considers that its ...

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For centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm – dark pink, slimy and inedible – was on the end of a fish hook. But the invertebrates' unappreciated status is about to change.

IT has been shown 1 that the male lugworm (Arenicola marina, L.) can be induced to spawn by injecting into the body-cavity the lipid fraction of tissue extracts of whole worms. It was suggested ...

The concern is that the lugworm Hb product will become another hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC) used by athletes to cheat. While Van Enoo isn’t worried that athletes are using the product, a ...

Dr. Zal and his team at Hemarina created Arenicola marina lugworm extracellular haemoglobin (HEMOXYCarrier®) for medical use after discovering the worm's incredible oxygen transporting qualities.

The use of lugworm haemoglobin could become the latest blood doping technique to be used in professional cycling, with its creator Dr. Franck Zal revealing to l’Equipe that in 2020, a “well ...

Unlike EPO, which takes upwards of two weeks to increase hemoglobin, Lugworm hemoglobin has an immediate impact on the body when injected, but it also has a short lifespan. Zal also reports that ...

Hingston JL, Copplestone D, McDonald P & Parker TG (2003) The use of biomarkers in the assessment of biological damage in the lugworm (Arenicola marina) and the lobster (Homarus gammarus) due to ...

1 Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark 2 Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden ...

It is incredible.” He set out to find how some marine worms, especially the arénicole (lugworm) which has gills, can survive for six hours without oxygen when the tide goes out. Lugworms are dug at ...