Article
The recruitment of mast cells, exclusively of the mucosal phenotype, into granulomatous lesions caused by the pentastomid parasite Porocephalus crotali: recruitment is irrespective of site.
Parasitology - 1 Jan 1993
McHardy P, Riley J, Huntley J F
Abstract excerpt
Adults of the porocephalid pentastomid Porocephalus crotali infect the lung of rattlesnake definitive hosts and larvae develop in rat intermediate hosts. In the latter, nymphs encyst within a variety of tissue sites (commonly abdominal fat bodies and lungs) and each becomes the focus of an eosino...
Topics
- Abdomen
- Adipose Tissue
- Animals
- Arthropods
- Chymases
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Eosinophilic Granuloma
- Fat Body
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Liver
- Lung
- Mast Cells
- Mucous Membrane
- Pancreas
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Rats, Wistar