Unraveling the structure, chemical composition, and conserved signaling in leech teeth

YP Aryal, S Neupane, HJ Kwak, CH An… - Animal Cells and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Unlike vertebrates, the number of toothed taxa in invertebrates is very few, with leeches
being the only tooth-bearing organisms in the phylum Annelida. Copious studies have been …

Hedgehog signaling during gut formation in the freshwater leech, Helobdella austinensis

BI Medina-Jiménez, HJ Kwak, YP Aryal, CJ Lee… - Cells Tissues …, 2025 - karger.com
Introduction: The hedgehog signaling pathway plays a crucial role in inducing segment
polarity through cell-cell interactions in various metazoans, including arthropods and …