Glycan vesicle formation in vitellocytes and hatching vacuoles in eggs of Echinostoma caproni and Fasciola hepatica (Digenea)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 416-426

  Schmidt, Jürgen ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echinostoma caproni; Egg; Fasciola hepatica; Glycoconjugate; Hatching; Vitellocyte

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ECHINOSTOMA; EGG; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HATCHING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LECTIN BINDING; LIGHT; MIRACIDIUM; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; TEMPERATURE; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 0031668137     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-8166(98)80056-6     Document Type: Article

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