CRUSTACEAN IMMUNITY AND COMPLEMENT - A PREMATURE COMPARISON

Authors
CERENIUS L SODERHALL K
Citation
L. Cerenius et K. Soderhall, CRUSTACEAN IMMUNITY AND COMPLEMENT - A PREMATURE COMPARISON, American zoologist, 35(1), 1995, pp. 60-67
Citations number
60
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
American zoologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031569
Volume
35
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
60 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-1569(1995)35:1<60:CIAC-A>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The prophenoloxidase activating system constitutes a system for recogn ition of foreignness in several invertebrates. The system has been esp ecially well studied in crustaceans and it will now be possible to beg in structural comparisons between components of the prophenoloxidase a ctivating system and components of other cascade systems which functio n in host defense such as the vertebrate complement and blood coagulat ion.