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Building exploration with leeches Hirudo verbana [PDF]
Biosystems, 2015 Safe evacuation of people from building and outdoor environments, and search and rescue operations, always will remain actual in course of all socio-technological developments. Modern facilities offer a range of automated systems to guide residents towards emergency exists. The systems are assumed to be infallible. But what if they fail?
Andrew Adamatzky +1 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023 Natural history research is crucial for any competitive science curriculum, but it faces a wide array of challenges in the current academic environment, including a critical lack of funding and support. In this paper, we review the critical importance of natural history science for studying evolution, ecology, conservation, the earth science, as well ...
Karma Nanglu +11 more
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Interaction between nanomaterials and the innate immune system across evolution
Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 747-774, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Interaction of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) with the immune system mainly occurs with cells and molecules of innate immunity, which are present in interface tissues of living organisms. Immuno‐nanotoxicological studies aim at understanding if and when such interaction is inconsequential or may cause irreparable damage. Since innate immunity
Diana Boraschi +5 more
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Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 539-553, February 2022., 2022 Abstract Leeches play important roles in food webs due to their abundance, diversity and feeding habits. Studies using invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA) extracted from leech gut contents to target vertebrate DNA have focused on the Indo‐Pacific region and mainly leveraged the leech family Haemadipsidae, composed of bloodfeeding terrestrial leeches, while
Christina Lynggaard +4 more
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Cellulitis Caused by Hirudo orientalis Bites That Lead to an Allergic reaction
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 The allergic reaction due to leech bites is frequently reported due to complications of leech therapy and also unwanted leech infestation. Regularly, the urticarial papules are common, and itching lasts less than 24 h. In the case of leech biting, dermal infection could be caused by leech gut bacterial flora such as Aeromonas spp and histamine from ...
Mohsen Najjari +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 24, Page 17593-17603, December 2021., 2021 In our paper, four events of blood sucking on human by juvenile and adult specimens of Placobdella costata were described. We presented with a new data of juvenile specimens' body form and considered information about the potential role of mammals as hosts and dispersion vector of this leech.
Joanna M. Cichocka +8 more
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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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Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2014 Although the European medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis L. 1758) is one of the best-known members of the Hirudinea due to its use in phlebotomy, this species has been confused with the Mediterranean taxon H. verbana Carena 1820.
U. Kutschera, Joy Elliott
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FEBS Letters, Volume 594, Issue 5, Page 841-850, March 2020., 2020 The hirudin‐like factor 1 (HLF1) of Hirudo medicinalis belongs to a new class of leech‐derived factors. In previous investigations, HLF1 did not exhibit anticoagulatory activities. Here, we describe the analysis of natural and synthetic variants of HLF1 and HLF‐Hyb, a yet uncharacterized member of the HLF family.
Christian Müller +3 more
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Photoactivation of neurons by laser-generated local heating
AIP Advances, 2012 We present a method for achieving temporally and spatially precise photoactivation of neurons without the need for genetic expression of photosensitive proteins.
Benjamin Migliori +2 more
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