Morphological and Immunological Characterization of Earthworm Lumbricus terrestris Coelomocytes
Description:
This research defines the morphological characteristics of the immune cells, coelomocytes, of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris. Such a definition of coelomocyte morphology can be correlated with immune function which will be of value in the development of a nonmammalian surrogate system to assess the immunotoxic potential of a terrestrial xenobiotics. Earthworms exposed to artificial soil dilutions of two complex xenobiotic mixtures, refuse derived fuel fly ash and a Superfund sire soil demo…
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Date:
August 1992
Creator:
Hariri, Maryam Feili