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 +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 +5 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 +23 more
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Hirudo Medicinalis and the plastic surgeon [PDF]
British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2004 Medicinal leech therapy is an ancient craft that dates back to ancient Egypt and the beginnings of civilisation. The popularity of Hirudo Medicinalis has varied throughout history, reaching such a peak in Europe in the early 19th century that supplies ...
Butler, PE +4 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 +6 more
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Comparative genomics suggests extensive antithrombotic gene expansion in Haemadipsa yanyuanensis [PDF]
BMC GenomicsHaemadipsa 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 +8 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 +5 more
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Genetic Variation and Gene Expression of the Antimicrobial Peptide Macins in Asian Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria manillensis) [PDF]
BiologyWith 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 +9 more
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Ras activation in Hirudo medicinalis angiogenic process [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2013 In some leeches like Hirudo medicinalis, any kind of stimulation (surgical wound or growth factor injection) provokes the botryoidal tissue response. This peculiar tissue, localized in the loose connective tissue between gut and body wall, is formed by ...
A Grimaldi +4 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 EuropeHirudo 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 +14 more
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