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Isolation of microglia-derived extracellular vesicles: towards miRNA signatures and neuroprotection

Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2019
The functional preservation of the central nervous system (CNS) is based on the neuronal plasticity and survival. In this context, the neuroinflammatory state plays a key role and involves the microglial cells, the CNS-resident macrophages.
Quentin Lemaire, Antonella Raffo-Romero, Tanina Arab, Christelle Van Camp, Francesco Drago, Stefano Forte, Jean-Pascal Gimeno, Séverine Begard, Morvane Colin, Jacopo Vizioli, Pierre-Eric Sautière, Michel Salzet, Christophe Lefebvre   +12 more
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Intrinsic frequency response patterns in mechano-sensory neurons of the leech

Biology Open, 2017
Animals employ mechano-sensory systems to detect and explore their environment. Mechano-sensation encompasses stimuli such as constant pressure, surface movement or vibrations at various intensities that need to be segregated in the central nervous ...
Linda Fischer, Frank Scherbarth, Boris Chagnaud, Felix Felmy   +3 more
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The Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1 (AIF-1) homologous in Hirudo medicinalis (medicinal leech) is involved in immune response during wound healing and graft rejection processes [PDF]

Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2015
Allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) is a 17 kDa cytokine-inducible calcium-binding protein that in Vertebrates plays an important role in allografts immune response.
T Schorn, F Drago, M de Eguileor, R Valvassori, J Vizioli, G Tettamanti, A Grimaldi   +6 more
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ERGA-BGE reference genome of Hirudo verbana, a once neglected freshwater haematophagous European medicinal leech [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

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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Effects of Carbon Nanotube Environmental Dispersion on an Aquatic Invertebrate, Hirudo medicinalis.

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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Prolonged venous bleeding due to traditional treatment with leech bite: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011
Introduction The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, has been used in the treatment of many diseases for thousands of years. In Turkey, it is used most commonly in the management of venous diseases of lower extremities.
Altun Hasan, Bulut Nuriye, Bat Orhan, Kaya Bulent, Memisoglu Kemal   +4 more
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Comparative genomics suggests extensive antithrombotic gene expansion in Haemadipsa yanyuanensis

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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Hirudo medicinalis : de sa physiologie à l'hirudothérapie

, 2013
Hirudo medicinalis (ou sangsue médicinale) suscite un grand intérêt depuis plus de 3000 ans. Cet Annélide, qui peuple les mares et les rivières, a suscité et suscite toujours de nombreux travaux de recherche.
Duval, Clémence
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Microsurgeon Hirudo medicinalis as a Natural Bioshuttle for Spontaneous Mass Vaccination against Influenza A Virus

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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Antibacterial Activity of Saliva Extraction of Leech Hirudo medicinalis

Medical Journal of Babylon
Background: Bacteria have developed techniques to withstand the majority of today’s medicines. Leeches are considered as a potential treatment for diseases management for their capacity to prevent blood clotting while sucking, keep it in a liquid state ...
Luma J. Witwit, Wijdan R. Taj-Aldeen
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