Academic Journal

Morphological characterization of the hemocytes of the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria tenagophila

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Morphological characterization of the hemocytes of the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria tenagophila
المؤلفون: Barracco, Margherita Anna, Steil, Ana Angélica, Gargioni, Rogério
المصدر: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. March 1993 88(1)
بيانات النشر: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, 1993.
سنة النشر: 1993
مصطلحات موضوعية: Biomphalaria tenagophila, gastrop, snail, mollusc
الوصف: The blood cells of the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria tenagophila, an important transmiter of the trematode Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil, were examined by ligth and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Two hemocyte types were identified: hyalinocytes and granulocytes. Hyalinocytes are small young (immature), poorly spreading cells, which have a high nucleocytoplasmic ratio and are especially rich in free ribosomes. They do not appear to contain lysosome-like bodies and represent less than 10% of the circulating hemocytes. Granulocytes are larger hemocytes which readily spread on glass surface and which strongly react to the Gomori substrate, indicating the enzyme acid phosphatase usually found in lysosomes. Ultra-structurally, they contain a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, dictyosomes and some some lysosome-like dense bodies. Granulocytes do not exhibit a characteristic granular aspect and the few granules observed in the cytoplasm should correspond to a lysosome system. They were named granulocytes instead of amoebocytes to use the same terminology adopted for Biomphalaria glabrata in order to make easier comparative studies. This is a preface study for more specific investigations on the functional activities of the blood cells of B. tenagophila and their interactions with the trematode parasite.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: text/html
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02761993000100012
URL الوصول: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761993000100012
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edssci.S0074.02761993000100012
قاعدة البيانات: SciELO
الوصف
تدمد:00740276
DOI:10.1590/S0074-02761993000100012