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American Zoologist 1983 23(1):205-211; doi:10.1093/icb/23.1.205
© 1983 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Inflammatory Reactions of the Protochordata1

RICHARD K. WRIGHT and EDWIN L. COOPER
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Center for the Health Sciences,University of California Los Angeles, California 90024

Ascidian inflammatory responses are characterized by an influx of blood cells into areas containing foreign material or injured tissue. The sequestering and removal of foreign substances is a function of their chemical nature and size. Small particulate materials are removed by phagocytosis; substances too large to be phagocytosed are encapsulated. Blood cells involved in inflammatory reactions are small undifFerentiated cells (hemoblasts, lymphocytes), hyaline and granular leucocytes and morula cells.


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