Specific Antibodies: A Potential Insecticide
- 29 August 1980
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 209 (4460), 1028-1029
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7403865
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.Keywords
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