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    Hirudo medicinalis, or the European medicinal leech, is one of several species of leeches used as medicinal leeches. Other species of Hirudo sometimes...
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    genus are: Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758 Hirudo nipponia Whitman, 1886 Three other species, previously synonymized with H. medicinalis, were described...
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    environments. The best-known species, such as the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, are hematophagous, attaching themselves to a host with a sucker and...
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    invertebrate in which a neuron cell was identified was the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis. Learning and memory using nociceptors in the sea hare, Aplysia has...
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    Hirudo verbana is a species of leech. Hirudo verbana has long been used as a medicinal leech under the species H. medicinalis, but has recently been recognized...
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    peptide in the salivary glands of blood-sucking leeches (such as Hirudo medicinalis) that has a blood anticoagulant property. This is essential for the...
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  • Hirudo orientalis is a species of medicinal leech. It has been confused with Hirudo medicinalis, but has recently been recognized as a different species...
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    enzyme, hirudin, into the host's blood stream. The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) has two suckers, one at each end, called the anterior and posterior...
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    symbiotic relationship as gut flora inside of certain leeches, such as Hirudo medicinalis. Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria are Gram-negative, straight rods with...
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    of the gut, and about 75 percent of all species of leeches (e.g., Hirudo medicinalis) are hematophagous. The spider Evarcha culicivora feeds indirectly...
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    occurring drug hirudin, found in the saliva of the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis. It is manufactured by The Medicines Company. Bivalirudin lacks many...
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    said to "have wisdom and fortitude that can elevate the wiser poet". Hirudo medicinalis, the only species of leech in Britain that can suck human blood, is...
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    (Arhynchobdellida). Their best-known member is the European medical leech, Hirudo medicinalis, and indeed most of the blood-sucking "worms" as which leeches are...
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    example of a building constructed to keep live medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) healthy prior to their sale by the local apothecary to doctors and...
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  • yeast cells. Lepirudin is almost identical to hirudin extracted from Hirudo medicinalis, having the amino acid sequence LTYTDCTESGQNLCLCEGSNVCGQGNKCILGSD...
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    with fresh water or soil. Aeromonas species are endosymbionts of Hirudo medicinalis, a species of leech that is FDA-approved for use in vascular surgery...
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    in the United Kingdom has maintained a species of medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) in their facility to use as an education exhibit. Leeches normally...
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  • grassleaf sweet flag rhizome) and five components derived from animals (Hirudo medicinalis, Eupolyphaga seu steleophaga, Calculus bovis artifactus, Buthus martensii...
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    which a nociceptive cell was identified was the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, which has the characteristic segmented body of an Annelida, each...
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  • Hexaprotodon liberiensis Hippocampus spp. Hippopotamus amphibius Hirudo medicinalis Hirudo verbana Holacanthus clarionensis Hoodia spp. Hoplobatrachus tigerinus...
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    Hirudo medicinalis. Leeches for bloodletting...
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  • marketing as a prescription medical device. In June 2004, the FDA cleared Hirudo medicinalis (medicinal leeches) as the second living organism to be used as a...
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    congener, bivalirudin, are based on saliva chemistry of the leech, Hirudo medicinalis. Used to treat type 2 diabetes, exenatide was developed from saliva...
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    reach a length of 10 cm (4 in), a similar size to the medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis, but can extend to a greater length when stretched out. The body is...
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    exhausted and other regions imposed restrictions or bans on exports, and Hirudo medicinalis is treated as an endangered species by both IUCN and CITES. More recently...
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    marketing as a prescription medical device. In June 2004, the FDA cleared Hirudo medicinalis (medicinal leeches) as the second living organism legal to use as...
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    micrometer-diameter Retzius cells in the central nervous system of the leech (Hirudo medicinalis). During his time at the Karolinska Institute, he made important contributions...
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  • antlers, pets 1a Artiodactyla except Bovidae European medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) 800 BCE Europe, Asia bloodletting, surgery, therapy, research, saliva...
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  • (January 1999). "Symbiosis of Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria and Hirudo medicinalis, the medicinal leech: a novel model for digestive tract associations"...
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  • inhibitors. Hirudin and derivatives were originally discovered in Hirudo medicinalis: Hirudin Bivalirudin (transient inhibition - is cleaved by thrombin)...
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