Some properties of the surface of nematode larvae
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Helminthology
- Vol. 57 (4) , 291-295
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x0001097x
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.Keywords
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