Defensive mechanisms of holothuroids (Echinodermata): Formation, role, and fate of intracoelomic brown bodies in the sea cucumber Holothuria tubulosa

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 99-106

  Jans, Didier ^a   Dubois, Philippe ^a   Jangoux, Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brown bodies; Coelomocytes; Holothuria tubulosa (echinodermata); Immune mechanisms; Spherulocytes

Indexed keywords

CARMINIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ECHINODERM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; ECHINODERMATA; HOLOTHURIA TUBULOSA; HOLOTHUROIDEA;

EID: 0030061111     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050517     Document Type: Article

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