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Intracellular Recording, Sensory Field Mapping, and Culturing Identified Neurons in the Leech, Hirudo medicinalis
Published on: November 5, 2013
[Design of an electronic leech]
Pedro Alejandro Lomelí-Mejía1, René Domínguez-Rubio, Alejandro Espinosa-Gutiérrez
1Laboratorio de Biomecánica. Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación.
Abstract:
This research presents the development of a continual suction electromechanical device (CSED) which emulates the feeding characteristics of a medicinal leech to drain body fluids. After the research, design and building of the device, its performance in normal conditions with fluids of different viscosity was evaluated. Finally, the device was submitted to a test of blood draining in three adult male rabbits NZW with a weight of three kilograms, obtaining drain.

