Algae and Protozoa

Phosphagen and Protozoa

THE comparative investigations of Eggleton and Eggletonw, Meyerhof and Lohmanndi), Meyerhof (io), and Needham, Needham, Baldwin and Yudkin (n) have established a considerable body of information concerning the distribution of the phosphagens in the animal kingdom, and the character and implications of this knowledge have recently been analysed by Needham and Needham (13). But from all discussio...

Immunity to protozoa and worms

Algae

Algae frequently get a bad press. Pond slime is a problem in garden pools, algal blooms can produce toxins that incapacitate or kill animals and humans and even the term seaweed is pejorative - a weed being a plant growing in what humans consider to be the wrong place. Positive aspects of algae are generally less newsworthy - they are the basis of marine food webs, supporting fisheries and char...

Manual of Human Protozoa

may give an indication of the wide appeal which this book should have. These headings are: Significance of Permeability Studies; Methods of Studying Membrane Permeability; Equilibrium Conditions of Cells; Some Equations used in Permeability Studies; The Nature of the Process of Diffusion; The Structure of the Plasma Membrane; The Interpretation of Permeability Measurements; Permeability to Non-...

Vaccination against Protozoa

There are few vac cines for pro to zoan in fec tions in any spe cies. Those that have been de vel oped are summa rised in Ta ble 1. They share the com mon fea ture that all uti lise liv ing par a sites which have been ei ther at ten u ated in vivo or in vi tro or, in the case of Theileria parva, are non-attenuated but in which their patho ge nic ity is mod u lated by con cur rent drug treat men...