Comparative Study of Leech-Derived Tryptase Inhibitor Genes in Four Medicinal Leech Species [PDF]
BiologyLeeches are aquatic annelids of significant medicinal value, known to produce a variety of antithrombotic proteins. However, the extent of interspecies variation in these bioactive components remains poorly understood.
Mingkang Xiao +8 more
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Ingestive behaviour and physiology of the medicinal leech [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 1988 Ingestion lasts 25 min in Hirudo medicinalis and is characterized by pharyngeal peristalsis which fills the crop. This peristalsis has an initial rate of 2.4 Hz which decays smoothly to 1.2 Hz at termination of ingestion. During ingestion, the leech body
Dickinson, M. H. +3 more
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Encoding of Tactile Stimuli by Mechanoreceptors and Interneurons of the Medicinal Leech [PDF]
Front Physiol, 2016 For many animals processing of tactile information is a crucial task in behavioral contexts like exploration, foraging, and stimulus avoidance. The leech, having infrequent access to food, developed an energy efficient reaction to tactile stimuli ...
Fathiazar, Elham +3 more
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Duplication of the Antistasin-Like Structure Resulted in a New Anticoagulant Protein in the Medicinal Leech [PDF]
BiomoleculesBlood-sucking organisms produce various anticoagulant proteins that prevent blood clotting in their prey. Even in well-studied species like Hirudo medicinalis, many such proteins remain unidentified.
Ksenia A. Brovina +5 more
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Host Matters: Medicinal Leech Digestive-Tract Symbionts and their Pathogenic Potential [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Digestive-tract microbiota exert tremendous influence over host health. Host-symbiont model systems are studied to investigate how symbioses are initiated and maintained, as well as to identify host processes affected by resident microbiota.
Jeremiah Marden +4 more
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The use of leeches in medicine [PDF]
, 2006 A Leech is any parasite annelid of the class Hirudinea. While leeches can be harmful some have been used medically in the past.
Boffa, Charles J.
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An Optically Stabilized Fast-Switching Light Emitting Diode as a Light Source for Functional Neuroimaging [PDF]
, 2012 Neuroscience research increasingly relies on optical methods for evoking neuronal activity as well as for measuring it, making bright and stable light sources critical building blocks of modern experimental setups. This paper presents a method to control
Wagenaar, Daniel A.
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New dermoscopic sign in leech therapy
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2023 Leeches are hermaphroditic parasites of phylum Annelida and class Hirudinea. A minority of these are sanguinivorous and the cause of human morbidity. Historically, leeches have been used for medicinal purposes with the earliest recorded being 1500 BC ...
Nahida N Bhat, Yasmeen J Bhat
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Occurrence, distribution and bibliography of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820 (Hirudinea, Hirudinidae) in Sicily (Italy) [PDF]
, 2019 The occurrence of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana in the inland waters of Sicily has been lately overlooked. In the present note, the occurrence and distribution of this species is reviewed based both on the review of the available literature data and
Canale D. E., Marrone F.
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Neuronal Control of Swimming Behavior: Comparison of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Model Systems [PDF]
, 2011 Swimming movements in the leech and lamprey are highly analogous, and lack homology. Thus, similarities in mechanisms must arise from convergent evolution rather than from common ancestry.
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