Abstract
The angiogenic process in vertebrates and hirudineans has been compared. The leech Hirudo medicinalis, subjected to an angiogenic stimulus (surgical explant or cytokine treatment) responds, as a vertebrate, with the formation of an extensive network of new vessels accompanied by the production of circulating cells. The reviewed data confirm the surprising similarity between hirudinean and vertebrate processes in wound healing, and suggest that basic common events such as antigenic expressions of endothelial and hemopoietic cells, cytokine secretion and regulation as well as extracellular matrix interactions, are conserved and extended across diverse species, tissues and developmental phases.
Keywords: Angiogenesis, hematopoietic cells, leeches, cytokines
Current Pharmaceutical Design
Title: Hematopoietic Cell Formation in Leech Wound Healing
Volume: 12 Issue: 24
Author(s): A. Grimaldi, G. Tettamanti, G. Perletti, R. Valvassori and M. de Eguileor
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Keywords: Angiogenesis, hematopoietic cells, leeches, cytokines
Abstract: The angiogenic process in vertebrates and hirudineans has been compared. The leech Hirudo medicinalis, subjected to an angiogenic stimulus (surgical explant or cytokine treatment) responds, as a vertebrate, with the formation of an extensive network of new vessels accompanied by the production of circulating cells. The reviewed data confirm the surprising similarity between hirudinean and vertebrate processes in wound healing, and suggest that basic common events such as antigenic expressions of endothelial and hemopoietic cells, cytokine secretion and regulation as well as extracellular matrix interactions, are conserved and extended across diverse species, tissues and developmental phases.
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Grimaldi A., Tettamanti G., Perletti G., Valvassori R. and de Eguileor M., Hematopoietic Cell Formation in Leech Wound Healing, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2006; 12 (24) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161206777947443
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138161206777947443 |
Print ISSN 1381-6128 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1873-4286 |
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