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Specific antibodies: a potential insecticide
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 29, 1980
Abstract:
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.