Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82160843.
BACKGROUND Hyperuricemia(HUA)is a public health concern that needs to be solved urgently.The lyophilized powder of Poecilobdella manillensis has been shown to significantly alleviate HUA;however,its underlying metabol...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32000058);the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(BK20200025);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2103100).
Leech hyaluronidase(LHyal)is a hyperactive hyaluronic acid(HA)hydrolase that belongs to the hyaluronoglu-curonidase family.Traditionally,LHyal is extracted from the heads of leeches,but the recent development of the P...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.51975126);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant no.2021M700882);the Frontier and Key Technology Innovation Funds of Guangdong Province(Grant no.2017B050506008);the Guangdong Yangfan Program for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams(Grant no.2017YT05G026).
Soft climbing/crawling robots have been attracting increasing attention in the soft robotics community,and many prototypes with basic locomotion have been implemented.Most existing soft robots achieve locomotion by pl...
Supported by the Scientific Research Project of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau of Guangdong Province,China(Nos.20211136 and 20221086)。
Objective:To investigate whether Leech-Centipede(LC) Granules can improve erectile function in rats with diabetes mellitus-associated erectile dysfunction(DMED) through endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition(EndMT) inh...
supported by the Discovery and Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant 2016-04334;funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)。
In this study,based on inspiration drawn from origami and the suction mechanism of leeches,a dry electrode is developed for reliable blood pressure(BP)monitoring.The leech-inspired suction mechanism generated a local ...
This study was supported by the Yunnan Innovation Team Training Project,the National Natural Science Foundation(31772542);National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals(W02070188).
Leeches are invertebrates that have a long history of application in the development of human medicine in both the East and the West.This paper comprehensively analyzes and evaluates current research and the latest pr...