Head split! Stunned, the sea slag cut itself off. Create a new heart to eliminate parasites

Head split body – On March 13th Reuters A team of Japanese researchers has reportedly performed miracles that can cut off a slug’s head Rebuild the body This branching feature has been found to be beneficial for dementia rehabilitation medicine.

Zakaya Mito and Yochi Yusa, authors of the study, published in the journal Current Biology, identified the mechanism for separating the body of slags. This is a very serious way to get rid of parasites. This green sea slug contains algal cells in the skin. So this part can be eaten like a plant. Until the body takes 20 days to regenerate.

Mito, a PhD researcher, is an observer of semoglossal sea slug that separates itself from the body. Nara Women’s University

“I was surprised. I thought it was definitely going to die. But it’s going around. Get more energetic. Continue eating. So for a while I caught my attention.

This hand-out photo taken on September 2, 2020 from the laboratory of Nara Women’s University in Japan shows a sea slug, Elysia Marginata, with her body and head decapitated. , Won by Reuters on March 10, 2021. Hand out by Sayaka Mitho / REUTERS

This study comes from raising 5 of the 15 sea slugs in the lab. Someone detached from the head and body. A body splits twice, each time leaving the heart on its own. Personally continued for a while but his head did not rebuild

“The amazing thing is the stem cells that are used to build the heart and the body to grow from the head. We will study further to make these findings useful in the field of degenerative medicine. This is still hopeful, ”Mito added.

Rebuilt / Sayaka Mytho

Previously, other animals were found. This is an autonomic system – autotomy, or removal of a part of the body. But this extreme form of head separation was not previously known.

How to leave your body part This is a way to escape from predators (e.g. fox tail), but in this case it eliminates a parasite and it becomes a parasite.

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