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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[1993]
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| 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.