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Hematological and immunological properties of herring gull (Larus argentatus) nestlings experimentally infected with Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidae)

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The morphological structure of the blood in herring gull nestlings and their immune system response to experimental infection with tapeworm Diphyllobothrium dendriticum have been studied. The leukocyte reaction pattern and the dynamics of immunoglobulin synthesis and populations of immunocompetent cells in the blood of nestlings during early invasion indicated a short duration of the cellular immune response and an insignificant humoral response. A pronounced trend to decrease in the hemoglobin level in the blood of infected nestlings has been revealed and this reduction was in part compensated by intensified erythropoiesis. It is shown, that the changes in hematologic and immune responses of the obligate definitive host provide for the mutual host-parasite adaptation.

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Original Russian Text © O.E. Mazur, N.M. Pronin, L.V. Tolochko, 2007, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2007, No. 4, pp. 420–427.

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Mazur, O.E., Pronin, N.M. & Tolochko, L.V. Hematological and immunological properties of herring gull (Larus argentatus) nestlings experimentally infected with Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidae). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 34, 346–352 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359007040061

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