"Snails" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Marine, freshwater, or terrestrial mollusks of the class Gastropoda. Most have an enclosing spiral shell, and several genera harbor parasites pathogenic to man.
| Descriptor ID |
D012908
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.644.400.750
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Snails" by people in Profiles.
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Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts. Nat Commun. 2018 02 26; 9(1):837.
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Cigarette butts may have low toxicity to soil-dwelling invertebrates: Evidence from a land snail. Sci Total Environ. 2018 Jul 01; 628-629:556-561.
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Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017 Jun 05; 372(1722).
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Genetic Evidence of Contemporary Dispersal of the Intermediate Snail Host of Schistosoma japonicum: Movement of an NTD Host Is Facilitated by Land Use and Landscape Connectivity. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 12; 10(12):e0005151.
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Atrial granular cells of the snail Achatina fulica release proteins into hemolymph after stimulation of the heart nerve. J Exp Biol. 2009 Oct; 212(Pt 20):3211-20.