HISTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF AN ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN THE OVA OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI

1 March 1958

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

Vol. 6 (2), 139-141
https://doi.org/10.1177/6.2.139

Abstract

1. An acetylcholinesterase has been demonstrated in the central nervous system of the miracidium of Schistosoma mansoni by using acetylthiocholine and O-acetyl-5-bromoindoxyl as substrates in association with inhibitors.

Keywords

CHOLINESTERASE/DETERMINATION
OVUM/METABOLISM
SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI/METABOLISM

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The differentiation of true and pseudo cholinesterase by organo-phosphorus compounds
Biochemical Journal, 1953
THE ELIMINATION OF ENZYMATIC DIFFUSION ARTIFACTS IN THE HISTOCHEMICAL LOCALIZATION OF CHOLINESTERASES AND A SURVEY OF THEIR CELLULAR DISTRIBUTIONS
1951

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