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Kazuyo Matsuzawa1, Masafumi Abe, Tetsurou Shirakura
1Department of Medical Biology, School of Medicine, Showa University, 1-5-8 Hatanodai Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan. masafabe@med.showa-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The expulsion of the gastrointestinal parasite Vampirolepis nana was examined in different mouse strains and in immunosuppressed mice infected to different degrees with eggs and cysticercoids. To investigate the immunological mechanism that regulates expulsion, surface-bound mouse immunoglobulins were examined on adult worms. The time to spontaneous expulsion of worms was dependent on strain (C57BL, BDF(1), B6C3F(1)
