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. 1983 Feb;48(2):377-83.

Cytophilic receptors for foreignness and some factors which influence phagocytosis by invertebrate leucocytes: in vitro phagocytosis by amoebocytes of the snail Lymnaea stagnalis

W P van der Knaap, T Sminia, R Schutte, L H Boerrigter-Barendsen

Cytophilic receptors for foreignness and some factors which influence phagocytosis by invertebrate leucocytes: in vitro phagocytosis by amoebocytes of the snail Lymnaea stagnalis

W P van der Knaap et al. Immunology. 1983 Feb.

Abstract

By means of in vitro phagocytosis it was demonstrated that macrophage-like blood cells of an invertebrate (amoebocytes of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis) possess cytophilic receptors for foreignness. These receptors are lectin molecules which are reversibly bound to the surface of the cells. Phagocytosis is dependent, beyond recognition of foreignness, on temperature and pH, and on the feeding condition of the snails.

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