Microglia of medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) express a specific activation marker homologous to vertebrate ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1/alias aif-1)

Calreticulin contributes to C1q-dependent recruitment of microglia in the leech Hirudo medicinalis following a CNS injury

(2014) Christophe Lefebvre   MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR

Role of AIF-1 in the regulation of inflammatory activation and diverse disease processes

(2013) Yan-Ying Zhao et al.   CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Allograft inflammatory factor-1 stimulates hemocyte immune activation by enhancing phagocytosis and expression of inflammatory cytokines in Crassostrea gigas

(2013) Yang Zhang et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Genetic inactivation of the allograft inflammatory factor-1 locus

(2013) Isabel Casimiro et al.   GENESIS

Involvement of nitric oxide through endocannabinoids release in microglia activation during the course of CNS regeneration in the medicinal leech

(2013) Karim Arafah et al.   GLIA

Microglia release ATP by exocytosis

(2013) Yoshio Imura et al.   GLIA

Expression of allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) in response to bacterial challenge and tissue injury in the pearl oyster, Pinctada martensii

(2012) Jun Li et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Interaction of HmC1q with leech microglial cells: involvement of C1qBP-related molecule in the induction of cell chemotaxis

(2012) Muriel Tahtouh et al.   Journal of Neuroinflammation

Cloning and Expression Analysis of Allograft Inflammatory Factor Type 1 in Coelomocytes of Antarctic Sea Urchin (Sterechinus neumayeri)

(2012) Fernanda Ovando et al.   JOURNAL OF SHELLFISH RESEARCH

Morphological and functional characterization of leech circulating blood cells: role in immunity and neural repair

(2011) Céline Boidin-Wichlacz et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Physiology of Microglia

(2011) Helmut Kettenmann et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Construction of a medicinal leech transcriptome database and its application to the identification of leech homologs of neural and innate immune genes

(2010) Eduardo R Macagno et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Allograft inflammatory factor-1 in disk abalone (Haliotis discus discus): Molecular cloning, transcriptional regulation against immune challenge and tissue injury

(2010) Mahanama De Zoysa et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Cloning and characterization of allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) from manila clam Venerupis philippinarum

(2010) Lei Zhang et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

A homologous form of human interleukin 16 is implicated in microglia recruitment following nervous system injury in leech Hirudo medicinalis

(2010) Françoise Croq et al.   GLIA

Neuroglial ATP release through innexin channels controls microglial cell movement to a nerve injury

(2010) Stuart E. Samuels et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Deciphering the Immune Function and Regulation by a TLR of the Cytokine EMAPII in the Lesioned Central Nervous System Using a Leech Model

(2009) D. Schikorski et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

ATP and NO dually control migration of microglia to nerve lesions

(2008) Yuanli Duan et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Structural and functional characterization of human Iba proteins

(2008) Jörg O. Schulze et al.   FEBS Journal

Microglial cell migration stimulated by ATP and C5a involve distinct molecular mechanisms: Quantification of migration by a novel near-infrared method

(2008) Aaron M. Miller et al.   GLIA

Evidence for a novel chemotactic C1q domain-containing factor in the leech nerve cord

(2008) Muriel Tahtouh et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY