Comparative Studies on the Internal Defense System of Schistosome- Resistant and -Susceptible Amphibious Snail Oncomelania nosophora 1. Comparative Morphological and Functional Studies on Hemocytes from Both Snails

Zoological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1215-1222

  Sasaki, Yuri ^a   Furuta, Emiko ^b   Kirinoki, Masashi ^c   Seo, Naomi ^a   Matsuda, Hajime ^c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Institute for Comparative Immunology   (Japan)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adherence; Hemocyte; Oncomelania nosophora; Phagocytosis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNOLOGY; JAPAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOCYTES; JAPAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; ONCOMELANIA; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 0346973356     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.1215     Document Type: Article

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