ReviewBiomedicines2020
European Medicinal Leeches-New Roles in Modern Medicine.
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- The clinical efficacy of herbal medicines containing leeches in the treatment of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Blood Relatives: Linking Evolutionary History and Conservation of Medicinal Leeches (Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Molecular Insights into Leech-Derived Bioactive Compounds: Biochemical Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The great diversity: monomeric and oligomeric hirudins, hirudin-like factors and decorsins in the Asian medicinal leeches Hirudo nipponia and Hirudo tianjinensis.Parasitology research · 2026Article
- Effects of hirudotherapy on liver functions, lipid profile, and insulin sensitivity in rats with metabolic syndrome.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Article
- Influence of various reproduction substrates on the survival, health, and reproductive output of broodstock Mediterranean medicinal leech (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Monomeric and Oligomeric Decorsins of the Asian Medicinal LeechInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The development and application of mini-barcodes from mitochondrial DNA for identifying medicinal leeches from traditional medicines.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly and anticoagulant protein annotation of the buffalo leech Hirudinaria bpling (Hirudinea: Hirudinidae).BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Diversity of hirudin and hirudin-like factor genes in the North-African medicinal leech, Hirudo troctina.Parasitology research · 2024Article
- Grey Zone Healers and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chechnya, Russia.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Starvation-induced changes in the proteome and transcriptome of the salivary glands of leech (Hirudo nipponia).PloS one · 2024Article
- Animal Venoms-Curse or Cure?Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Time to Change Theory; Medical Leech from a Molecular Medicine Perspective Leech Salivary Proteins Playing a Potential Role in Medicine.Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin · 2021Review
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Abstract
Before the advent of modern medicine, natural resources were widely used by indigenous populations for the prevention and treatment of diseases. The associated knowledge, collectively described as folk medicine or traditional medicine, was largely based on trial-and-error testing of plant extracts (herbal remedies) and the use of invertebrates, particularly medicinal maggots of the blowfly
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