Annalisa Grimaldi

Leeches: immune response, angiogenesis and biomedical applications.

Assessment of the biological activity of an improved naked-DNA vector for angiogenesis gene therapy on a novel non-mammalian model.

Leech responses to tissue transplantation.

Muscle differentiation in tentacles of Sepia officinalis (Mollusca) is regulated by muscle regulatory factors (MRF) related proteins.

Differentiation of slow and fast fibers in tentacles of Sepia officinalis (Mollusca).

Hirudo medicinalis: avascular tissues for clear-cut angiogenesis studies?

The multifunctional role of fibroblasts during wound healing in Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Hirudinea).

Collagen reorganization in leech wound healing.

Programmed cell death and stem cell differentiation are responsible for midgut replacement in Heliothis virescens during prepupal instar.

Lepidopteran larval midgut during prepupal instar: digestion or self-digestion?

Autophagy in invertebrates: insights into development, regeneration and body remodeling.

Toxoneuron nigriceps parasitization delays midgut replacement in fifth-instar Heliothis virescens larvae.

In vivo isolation and characterization of stem cells with diverse phenotypes using growth factor impregnated biomatrices.

Identification, isolation and expansion of myoendothelial cells involved in leech muscle regeneration.

The leech: a novel invertebrate model for studying muscle regeneration and diseases.

Cytokine loaded biopolymers as a novel strategy to study stem cells during wound-healing processes.

Autophagy precedes apoptosis during the remodeling of silkworm larval midgut.

Muscle development and differentiation in the urodele Ambystoma mexicanum.

The main actors involved in parasitization of Heliothis virescens larva.

An unusual green macular lesion of the gingiva: a foreign-body granulomatous reaction.

Homolog of allograft inflammatory factor-1 induces macrophage migration during innate immune response in leech.

The midgut of the silkmoth Bombyx mori is able to recycle molecules derived from degeneration of the larval midgut epithelium.

Environmental impact of multi-wall carbon nanotubes in a novel model of exposure: systemic distribution, macrophage accumulation, and amyloid deposition.

Effects of Carbon Nanotube Environmental Dispersion on an Aquatic Invertebrate, Hirudo medicinalis.

Extracellular matrix degradation via enolase/plasminogen interaction: Evidence for a mechanism conserved in Metazoa.

Midgut epithelium in molting silkworm: A fine balance among cell growth, differentiation, and survival.

Systemic distribution of single-walled carbon nanotubes in a novel model: alteration of biochemical parameters, metabolic functions, liver accumulation, and inflammation in vivo.

Human recombinant RNASET2-induced inflammatory response and connective tissue remodeling in the medicinal leech.

Timing of autophagy and apoptosis during posterior silk gland degeneration in Bombyx mori.

Host regulation by the ectophagous parasitoid wasp Bracon nigricans.

Cellular responses induced by multi-walled carbon nanotubes: in vivo and in vitro studies on the medicinal leech macrophages.

A new cellular type in invertebrates: first evidence of telocytes in leech Hirudo medicinalis.

Corrigendum to "Timing of autophagy and apoptosis during posterior silk gland degeneration in Bombyx mori" [Arthropod Struct. Dev. 46 (4) (2017) 518-528].

Changes in hyaluronan deposition in the rat myenteric plexus after experimentally-induced colitis.

Methods for Monitoring Autophagy in Silkworm Organs.

Sensilla Morphology and Complex Expression Pattern of Odorant Binding Proteins in the Vetch Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae).

Functional amyloidogenesis in immunocytes from the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri: Evolutionary perspective.

AIF-1 and RNASET2 Play Complementary Roles in the Innate Immune Response of Medicinal Leech.

Antibiotic treatment-induced dysbiosis differently affects BDNF and TrkB expression in the brain and in the gut of juvenile mice.