The selective adherence of rat eosinophils to newly excysted Fasciola hepatica in vitro.
Eosinophils present in a mixed population of peritoneal cells, derived from either normal or fluke infected rats, selectively adhered to the tegument of newly excysted Fasciola hepatica in vitro in the presence of immune serum. Adherence occurred independently of complement, was not affected by the age of the sensitising infection and could not be induced by artificially raised antisera to dead fluke antigens.
D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000276:immunology*; D005210:Fasciola hepatica / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology*; D007106:Immune Sera; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats
D007106:Immune Sera