ISSN:
0362-2525
Keywords:
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
The vascular channels and sinuses of this trematode contain three varieties of cells: eosinophilic granulocytes, primitive hemocytoblasts (‘amebocytes’), and modified hemocytoblasts. The latter suggest a specialized blood corpuscle, but represent apparently only a stage in the dissolution of intravascular hemocytoblasts. These ‘corpuscles’ have the form of flattened lenticular discs, approximately 12 μ in diameter. The eosinophils differentiate extravascularly from hemocytoblasts. The hemocytoblasts are in part free parenchymal cells, in part they arise from a bilaterally paired ‘lymphogenous organ’ or ‘blood island’ associated with the lateral vascular channels at the level where the ceca diverge from the esophagus.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1050550107
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