Specific antibodies: a potential insecticide.
When tsetse flies are fed on human blood, the hemolymph of the flies contains human albumin. If the flies then ingest antibodies to human albumin, they die within a short time. The albumin fraction in their hemolymph disappears and osmoregulation is severely disturbed.
D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies; D006458:Hemolymph / Q000378:metabolism; D007300:Insect Control / Q000379:methods*; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000276:immunology*; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance
D000906:Antibodies; D012709:Serum Albumin