Wound healing and Cadmium detoxification in the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris – a potential case for coelomocytes?

Earthworms are affected by physical stress, like injury, and by exposure to xenobiotics, such as the toxic metal cadmium (Cd), which enters the environment mainly through industry and agriculture. The stress response to the single and the combination of both stressors was examined in regenerative an...

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Main Authors: Gerhard P. Aigner, Veronika Peer, Birgit Fiechtner, Cláudio Adriano Piechnik, Martina Höckner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1272191/full