Different types of response to foreign antigens by leech leukocytes

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-48

  De Eguileor, M ^a   Grimaldi, A ^a   Tettamanti, G ^a   Valvassori, R ^a   Cooper, E L ^b   Lanzavecchia, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degranulation; Encapsulation; Leeches; LPS; Melanization; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; MELANIN; SULFATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; ENCAPSULATION; FOREIGN BODY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LEECH; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTOZOON; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034119506     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/tice.1999.0085     Document Type: Article

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