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Preventing infective complications following leech therapy: Is practice keeping pace with current research? [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Despite several publications strongly advocating prophylactic antibiotics during leech therapy, and recent primary articles shedding new light on the microbiota of leeches, many units either do not use antibiotic prophylaxis, or are ...
Abbott, Abbott, Ardehali, Batchelor, Bauters, Bely, Bickel, Braga, Brody, Busing, Cho, Connor, Dabb, de, de Chalain, de la Fuente, Derganc, DeSalle, Durrant, Eroglu, Evans, Fenollar, Fenollar, Frodel, Funk, Gideroglu, Graf, Graf, Graf, Gross, Guneren, Gur, Hayden, Hermansdorfer, Holtje, Hullett, Jacobs, Janda, Jones, Kalbermatten, Ketover, Kikuchi, Kraemer, Lee, Lineaweaver, Lineaweaver, Lineaweaver, Lineaweaver, Lowen, Mackay, Mercer, Michalsen, Michalsen, Michalsen, Mortenson, Motyl, Ormen, Otto, Ouderkirk, Pantuck, Pereira, Rados, Rao, Rolston, Sartor, Sawyer, Shenfeld, Siddall, Snower, Soucacos, Talbi, Trontelj, Tuncali, Utley, Valauri, Varghese, Vila, Walton, Whitaker, Whitaker, Whitaker, Whitaker, Worthen   +82 more
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The evolution and comparative neurobiology of endocannabinoid signalling [PDF]

, 2012
CB(1)- and CB(2)-type cannabinoid receptors mediate effects of the endocannabinoids 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and anandamide in mammals. In canonical endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity, 2-AG is generated postsynaptically by diacylglycerol ...
Devane W. A., Maurice R. Elphick, Montell C., Soderstrom K., Soderstrom K.   +4 more
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Geographical variability of heavy metal concentrations in tissues of medical leeches (Hirudo medicinalis, Hirudo verbana) and in bottom deposit

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2019
We present new data of the comparison of the geographical variability of heavy metal concentrations (Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cd, Pb, Ni) in tissues of medical leeches (Hirudo medicinalis, Hirudo verbana) and in bottom deposit from places of their inhabitation in
Liudmila V. Chernaya, Liudmila A. Kovalchuk, Nikolay V. Mikshevich   +2 more
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In vivo isolation and characterization of stem cells with diverse phenotypes using growth factor impregnated biomatrices. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND: The stimulation to differentiate into specific cell types for somatic stem cells is largely due to a series of internal and external signals coming from the microenvironment that surrounds the stem cell.
Annalisa Grimaldi, Cristiano Bianchi, Gabriella Greco, Gianluca Tettamanti, Douglas M Noonan, Roberto Valvassori, Magda de Eguileor   +6 more
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Medicinal leeches and the microsurgeon: A four-year study, clinical series and risk benefit review [PDF]

, 2011
Background: There are case reports and small series in the literature relating to the use of medicinal leeches by plastic surgeons; however, larger series from individual units are rare.
Azzopardi, Ernest A., Damaris, L., Graf, J., Hawkins, S., Josty, I. C., Kon, M., Lineaweaver, W. C., Naderi, Naghmeh, Whitaker, I. S.   +8 more
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Medicinal leech therapy—an overall perspective

Integrative Medicine Research, 2017
Complementary medicine methods have a long history, but modern medicine has just recently focused on their possible modes of action. Medicinal leech therapy (MLT) or hirudotherapy, an old technique, has been studied by many researchers for possible ...
Ali K. Sig, Mustafa Guney, Aylin Uskudar Guclu, Erkan Ozmen   +3 more
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Molecular basis of gap junctional communication in the CNS of the leech Hirudo medicinalis [PDF]

, 2004
Gap junctions are intercellular channels that allow the passage of ions and small molecules between cells. In the nervous system, gap junctions mediate electrical coupling between neurons.
Bacon, Jonathan P, Davies, Jane A, Dykes, Iain M, Freeman, Fiona M   +3 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the fish leech Zeylanicobdella arugamensis

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018
The complete mitochondrial genome of the fish leech Zeylanicobdella arugamensis from China has been determined for the first time in this study. It was 16,161 bp in length and consisted of 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs ...
Yongbo Wang, Min Huang, Rongxia Wang, Lanyu Fu   +3 more
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Leech therapy for epidermoid cysts and review of the literature

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2014
Hirudo medicinalis sucks blood directly through the external mammalian skin. We recently observed a healthy 64-year-old Iranian man, who presented with numerous asymptomatic multilobular oval-to-round well-defined 0.5 to 1.5 cm cystic lesions with ...
Abbas Rasi, Alireza Faghihi, Mirhadi Aziz Jalali, Abbas Zamanian, Gholamhossein Ghaffarpour   +4 more
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Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: many lineages of medicinal leeches [PDF]

, 2009
Background Medicinal leeches became infamous for their utility in bloodletting popularized in the 19th century, and have seen a recent resurgence in post-operative treatments for flap and replantation surgeries, and in terms of characterization of ...
Phillips Anna J, Siddall Mark E
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