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Some properties of the surface of nematode larvae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Michele Jungery ,
C. D. Mackenzie  and
Bridget M. Ogilvie
Michele Jungery
Affiliation:
National Institute for medical research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, U.K.
C. D. Mackenzie
Affiliation:
National Institute for medical research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, U.K.
Bridget M. Ogilvie
Affiliation:
National Institute for medical research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, U.K.
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Abstract

The nature of complement binding to the surface to infective larvae of Trichinella spiralis and Nippostronaylus brasiliensis differs. When worms were incubated in serum from uninfected hosts, washed and incubated in fluorescent reagent the whole surface of T. spiralis fluoresced but in N. Brasiliensis fluorescence was confined to the anterior end and some internal organs. The outer structure of the cuticle of the T. spiralis larvae was shown not to contain ATP-ase, thus differing from many cell membranes.

Type
Research Note
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 291 - 295
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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