According to Robert Madcalf, senior researcher that stroke victims now have one good reason to let vampire bats bite them. The clot-dissolving (fibrinolytic) substance called Desmodus rotundas salivary plasminogen activator (DSPA), found in the saliva of vampire bats is more effective than the available clot buster in the market. DSPA was found to target and destroy fibrin, the structural scaffold of blood clots. When the vampire bat bites its victim, its secretes…substance so that the victim’s blood will keep flowing allowing the bat to feed.
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