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Creator:: Boswell, Carl A.
Abstract:: The host snail Biomphalaria glabrata and the parasitic trematode Schistosoma mansoni are valuable subjects for studies evaluating and defining immunological parameters that determine the outcome of individual host-parasite encounters. In this thesis, both soluble and cellular components of the snail's hemolymph were examined to gain insight into the basis for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Immunological Perspectives of a Host-Parasite System

Creator:: Yui, Mary A.
Abstract:: Characteristics of bacterial clearance were investigated in the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Primary clearance kinetics were determined for three bacteria, a marine Gram negative motile rod, a marine Gram positive non-motile rod, and a fresh water fish pathogen, Aeromonas salmonicida. Various doses of live bacteria were injected...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: purpuratus AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mary A. Yui in Zoology Title: for the degree of Master of

Creator:: Flory, Craig M.
Abstract:: It has long been observed that stress can increase our susceptibility to infectious diseases and cancers. Recent experimental evidence suggests that this increased susceptibility is due to suppression of immunity. A variety of neuroendocrine products are released during periods of stress, and a large number of these are now known...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: suppression of immunity. A variety of neuroendocrine products are released during periods of stress, and a

Creator:: Demers, Nora Egan
Abstract:: This thesis tests the hypothesis that innate immunity may be enhanced immediately following a stressful event. The experiments characterize the acute effects of the fight or flight response on some immunological and endocrine parameters in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Plasma cortisol and catecholamines were elevated within seconds of the initiation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the hypothesis that innate immunity may be enhanced immediately following a stressful event. The

Creator:: Pierce, Laura G.
Abstract:: Due to an interest in the evolutionary origins of vertebrate mechanisms of immunorecognition, researchers have frequently turned to deuterostome invertebrates as model organisms. The purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea), was selected for this study of putative immunorecognition molecules in a deuterostome invertebrate. Hemagglutinins, molecules which agglutinate red blood...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in a deuterostome invertebrate. Hemagglutinins, molecules which agglutinate red blood cells, have

Creator:: Larson, Maureen Kupke
Abstract:: The echinoderm axial organ is located centrally, at the meeting point of the animals' "circulatory" systems. This, and its unusual histology, have prompted the implication of a number of different functions for the organ, including circulation, excretion and host defense. None of these have been definitively proven. Claims that starfish...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ' "circulatory" systems. This, and its unusual histology, have prompted the implication of a number of different

Creator:: Galvan, Irja S.
Abstract:: In a comparison of the mammalian and fish immune systems many similarities and differences are found. While most of the differences occur in the acquired or lymphoid arm of immunity, the nonlymphoid immune systems of fish and mammals share many similarities. For instance, both animal groups use phagocytic neutrophils and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Activity of Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Phagocytic Cells. Abstract approved: nstophe . Bayne In a

Creator:: Gerwick, Lena
Abstract:: The acute phase response (APR) includes an early response of the innate immune system to an inflammatory agent. Acute phase proteins (APP) are produced at increased rates in the liver during this response. The APR has been well characterized in mammals, but it is unclear to what degree teleosts mount...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: what degree teleosts mount a similar response. This thesis describes research conducted to

Creator:: Chen, Jyun-hung
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: caffeine inhibits cell activation as a result of its binding to adenosine receptors. The putative

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