Insect immunity /

This edited volume is the first comprehensive effort to compile the various aspects of `insect immunity'. In the past two decades the immunological studies on insects have taken shape and developed as a special branch of insect study. The various groups of scientists in different parts of the w...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pathak, J. P. N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1993]
Series:Series entomologica ; v. 48.
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Table of Contents:
  • Structure, classification and functions of insect haemocytes / Latifa Drif and Michel Brehélin
  • Haemocytes and their population / J. Bahadur
  • Isolation of pure populations of insects haemocytes / N.A. Ratcliffe
  • Cell-mediated defense reactions in insects / J.P.N. Pathak
  • Humoral encapsulation / Alain Vey
  • Inducible humoral antibacterial immunity in insects / Godwin P. Kaaya
  • Methods for genetic investigation of cellular immune reaction in insects, with the parasitic wasp-Drosophila system as a model / Y. Carton and A. Nappi
  • Interactions between the insect endocrine system and the immune system / S. Bradleigh Vinson
  • Prophenoloxidase activating system and its role in cellular communication / Kenneth Söderhäll and Anna Aspán
  • Some biochemical aspects of eumelanin formation in insect immunity / A.J. Nappi and M. Sugumaran
  • Haemagglutinins (Lectins) in insects / J.P.N. Pathak
  • Suppression of the insect immune system by parasitic Hymenoptera / S. Bradleigh Vinson.