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A report on the occurrence of microvillus-like structures in the caeca of certain trematodes (Paramphistomatidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. M. Wotton  and
F. Sogandares-Bernal
R. M. Wotton
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans 12, La., and the Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana
F. Sogandares-Bernal
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans 12, La., and the Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana
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The observations presented in this study indicate that the filose projections emerging from the apical or luminal surface of the epithelial cells lining the caeca of the trematodes Cleptodiscus kyphosi and C. reticulatus are sterocilia or microvilli. Their activity in the animal appears to be concerned with the absorption of substances from the lumen of the blindly ending caeca rather than with movement of material.

Acknowledgement is made that part of this work was carried out in the Department of Zoology and Anatomy of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, and supported in part by a grant from the Nebraska Heart Association for 1959.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 53 , Issue 1-2 , May 1963 , pp. 157 - 161
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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