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| Title |
Novel Sodium Channel Inhibitor From Leeches
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Pharmacology, March 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fphar.2018.00186 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gan Wang, Chengbo Long, Weihui Liu, Cheng Xu, Min Zhang, Qiong Li, Qiumin Lu, Ping Meng, Dongsheng Li, Mingqiang Rong, Zhaohui Sun, Xiaodong Luo, Ren Lai |
| Abstract |
Considering blood-sucking habits of leeches from surviving strategy of view, it can be hypothesized that leech saliva has analgesia or anesthesia functions for leeches to stay undetected by the host. However, no specific substance with analgesic function has been reported from leech saliva although clinical applications strongly indicated that leech therapy produces a strong and long lasting pain-reducing effect. Herein, a novel family of small peptides (HSTXs) including 11 members which show low similarity with known peptides was identified from salivary glands of the leech Haemadipsa sylvestris. A typical HSTX is composed of 22-25 amino acid residues including four half-cysteines, forming two intra-molecular disulfide bridges, and an amidated C-terminus. HSTX-I exerts significant analgesic function by specifically inhibiting voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels (NaV1.8 and NaV1.9) which contribute to action potential electrogenesis in neurons and potential targets to develop analgesics. This study reveals that sodium channel inhibitors are analgesic substances in the leech. HSTXs are excellent candidates or templates for development of analgesics. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
| Japan | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 19% |
| Researcher | 3 | 19% |
| Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 38% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 19% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 6 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2023.
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#76
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