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J Ito

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Studies on the fresh water Cercariae in Leyte Island, Philippines. 2. Cercariae from Oncomelania quadrasi.

From 1975 to 1976, more than six thousand snails of Oncomelania quadrasi were observed for cercarial fauna in the north-eastern part of Leyte Island, Philippines. Altogether, six species of cercariae including that of Schistosoma japonicum were found, namely two furcocercariae, one monostome cercaria, two xiphidiocercariae and one tail-less cercaria. In this paper a description of their morphology, infection rate, locality, and some remarks on the presumptive life cycle is included with illustrations and photographs.

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Studies on the fresh water cercariae in Leyte island, Philippines. 3. Cercariae from Thiaridae.

From 1975 to 1976, about three thousand snails of Thiaridae were examined for cercarial fauna in the northeastern part of Leyte Island, Philippines. The thiarid snails examined were Melanoides tuberculatus, Thiara (Plotiopsis) scabra, Antemelania dactylus and A. asperata, and a total of 13 species of cercariae including some important human parasites were found. These cercariae are consisted of one philophthalmid cercaria, two echinostome cercariae, three heterophyid cercariae, five xiphidiocercariae, one paragonimid cercaria and one unknown cercaria. In this paper a description of their morphology, infection rate, locality, and some remarks on the presumptive life cycle are included with illustrations and photographs.

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Requirement of newly synthesized protein for the priming activity of interferon.

Pretreatment of mouse L cells with interferon (IF) enhanced IF production in response to polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly I-poly C). Post-treatment of cells with IF caused no significant enhancement of IF production. The enhancing effect of IF pretreatment (priming) reached a maximum after incubation with IF (10 or 100 units/ml) for 4-6 hr at 37 C, but this effect was absent when the incubation was done at 4 C. Cells which were incubated for additional several hours at 37 C after IF pretreatment at 4 C did not develop the primed state nor the antiviral state. The presence of protein synthesis inhibitors during the IF pretreatment depressed, though not completely, the development of the primed state. The residual priming effect was lost when the cells were incubated with the inhibitors at 37 C for 2 hr before they were exposed to poly I-poly C. There was no significant difference in the binding rate of poly I-poly C to cells between IF-treated and untreated cells. The degradation rate of cell-bound poly I-poly C and its sensitivity to exogenous pancreatic ribonuclease in the pretreated cells were also similar to those in the untreated cells.

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