Snail Slime to Cure Pain

For the past couple of years, as a company we have been keeping up with the Rough Horn Snail. I’ve taken the time to do a little research and I have some basic information that will get everyone on the same page. The Rough Horn Snail, scientific named Pleurocera foreman, Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda, Order: Neotaenioglossa, Family: Pleuroceridae, Genus: Pleurocera. These mollusks are invertabaes that simply put, are freshwater snails. The Horn snail originates from Alabama and Georgia and is proposed to be an endangered species. These tiny animals live in lakes, streams and ponds and get their food from scraping algae and other debris from rocks, and submerged plants. Humans have put these little creatures’ lives at risk, by creating dam construction, channel modifications, pollution from agriculture and the draining of lakes and ponds.

The Rough Horn snail has some very unique adaptions to add to its name. Such adaptations are: Their long antennae to enhance their sense of smell and touch. This helps with finding food and also figuring out surroundings. They have a much lubricated slimy surface that enhances their mobility on the pond or lakes floor, this also helps in attaching itself to plants and rocks. Lastly, in an effort to protect it the snails can fully retract into it’s for added protection against predators.

The topic I would like to mostly focus on is the snail’s slimy toxins that it produces. It’s been explained that these slimy toxins can be a solution to treat severe never pain and also epilepsy. Just imagine all the people we could help with this scientific outbreak. Not only that, but we would finally be getting our name out and gaining some recognition that we deserve. In order to promote our drug we could use a celebrity who suffers from these severe nerve pains and have them advertise for us.

I figure we could about this by fishing out quite a few of these snails and then begin to breed them. We could try breeding them with a larger species of snail and then that way we could get more toxins from all of each of the snails we breed. We can then being to contains this sticky substance and make it into our drug.

I realize we will probably run into issues with animal right groups questioning what we are doing to these animals, and some may dub it wrong and animal abuse. I think that as long as we keep detailed information about our study and keep the public informed that we are only doing this to help people, then maybe we could get their support as well.

I think that going in on this research would be groundbreaking; we could help thousands of people while doing something we enjoy and getting our business name out to the public.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113180457.htm