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First Isolation of a Giant Virus from Wild Hirudo medicinalis Leech: Mimiviridae isolation in Hirudo medicinalis [PDF]

Viruses, 2013
Giant viruses and amoebae are common in freshwater, where they can coexist with other living multicellular organisms. We screened leeches from the species Hirudo medicinalis for giant viruses. We analyzed five H. medicinalis obtained from Tunisia (3) and
Mondher Boughalmi, Isabelle Pagnier, Sarah Aherfi, Philippe Colson, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola   +5 more
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Morganella Morganii Infection in Hirudo Medicinalis (Iran): A Case Report [PDF]

Veterinary Sciences, 2022
Medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) are used in surgical and non-surgical manners. Morganella morganii is an opportunistic and zoonotic pathogenic bacterium causing serious clinical complications.
Hooman Rahmati Holasoo, Iradj Ashrafi Tamai, Wolfram Manuel Brück, Babak Pakbin, Alireza Nasiri, Amirparsa Azizi   +5 more
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Blood Relatives: Linking Evolutionary History and Conservation of Medicinal Leeches (Hirudo spp.) [PDF]

Evolutionary Applications
Medicinal leeches of the genus Hirudo are both historically important in medicine and increasingly studied as models in ecology and biomedicine.
Gianluca Lombardo, Alessandro Alvaro, Andrea De Benedictis, Marta Cavallini, Milo Manica, Edward C. Netherlands, Laura Pulze, Nicolò Baranzini, Annalisa Grimaldi, Francesco Acquati, Giorgio Binelli   +10 more
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Draft genome sequences of Hirudo medicinalis and salivary transcriptome of three closely related medicinal leeches [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2020
Background Salivary cell secretion (SCS) plays a critical role in blood feeding by medicinal leeches, making them of use for certain medical purposes even today.
Vladislav V. Babenko, Oleg V. Podgorny, Valentin A. Manuvera, Artem S. Kasianov, Alexander I. Manolov, Ekaterina N. Grafskaia, Dmitriy A. Shirokov, Alexey S. Kurdyumov, Dmitriy V. Vinogradov, Anastasia S. Nikitina, Sergey I. Kovalchuk, Nickolay A. Anikanov, Ivan O. Butenko, Olga V. Pobeguts, Daria S. Matyushkina, Daria V. Rakitina, Elena S. Kostryukova, Victor G. Zgoda, Isolda P. Baskova, Vladimir M. Trukhan, Mikhail S. Gelfand, Vadim M. Govorun, Helgi B. Schiöth, Vassili N. Lazarev   +23 more
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Comparative genomics suggests extensive antithrombotic gene expansion in Haemadipsa yanyuanensis [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Haemadipsa yanyuanensis Liu & Song, 1977, is a terrestrial blood-feeding leech whose antithrombotic repertoire remains insufficiently characterized. We present its first chromosome-level genome assembly (165.32 Mb across nine chromosomes; BUSCO: 97.6 ...
Yiquan Lin, Fang Zhao, Sijia Fan, Dezhi Yang, Xiangrong Tong, Lizhou Tang, Dejun Kong, Gonghua Lin, Zichao Liu   +8 more
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Differentially expressed genes in Hirudo medicinalis ganglia after acetyl-L-carnitine treatment. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) is a naturally occurring substance that, when administered at supra-physiological concentration, is neuroprotective. It is involved in membrane stabilization and in enhancement of mitochondrial functions.
Giuseppe Federighi, Monica Macchi, Rodolfo Bernardi, Rossana Scuri, Marcello Brunelli, Mauro Durante, Giovanna Traina   +6 more
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Effects of Carbon Nanotube Environmental Dispersion on an Aquatic Invertebrate, Hirudo medicinalis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The recent widespread applications of nanomaterials, because of their properties, opens new scenarios that affect their dispersal in the environment.
Rossana Girardello, Stefano Tasselli, Nicolò Baranzini, Roberto Valvassori, Magda de Eguileor, Annalisa Grimaldi   +5 more
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Genetic Variation and Gene Expression of the Antimicrobial Peptide Macins in Asian Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria manillensis) [PDF]

Biology
With the growing severity of antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial peptides demonstrate significant potential for medical applications. Here, we performed genome and transcriptome sequencing of 30 Asian buffalo leech (Hirudinaria manillensis) individuals ...
Yunfei Yu, Lizhou Tang, Mingkang Xiao, Jingjing Yin, Tianyu Ye, Rujiao Sun, Rui Ai, Fang Zhao, Zuhao Huang, Gonghua Lin   +9 more
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ERGA-BGE reference genome of Hirudo verbana, a once neglected freshwater haematophagous European medicinal leech [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

Open Research Europe
Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820, commonly known as the southern medicinal leech, is one of several European medicinal leeches, whose full diversity has just recently started to be uncovered.
Jonathan M.D. Wood, Shane McCarthy, Fergal Martin, Leanne Haggerty, Rebekah A. Oomen, Anna Lazar, Thomas Marcussen, Torsten H. Struck, Astrid Böhne, Chiara Bortoluzzi, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Caroline Howard, Rita Monteiro, Mark Blaxter, Kerstin Howe   +14 more
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Microsurgeon Hirudo medicinalis as a Natural Bioshuttle for Spontaneous Mass Vaccination against Influenza A Virus [PDF]

BioImpacts, 2011
Introduction: Recent report on existence of a stem region of hemagglutinin has arisen new hopes for vaccination of influenza A as it consist of a conserve fusion peptide shared across several influenza subtypes and can be targeted by human immune system.
Sajjad Khani, Sina Atashpaz, Sara Samadi Shams   +2 more
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