Journal article

Publication year: 2002

Pages: 390-396

Journal: Tissue and Cell

Volume number: 34

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0040-8166

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040816602000708

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
Endocytotic-active cells in the branchial heart complex of Sepia officinalis were studied by in situ injection of different types of xenobiotics and by in vitro perfusion of the organ complex with a bacterial suspension. The rhogocytes (ovoid cells) ingest particles of all tested sizes by endocytosis and phagocytosis. The hemocytes of the circulating blood and the adhesive hemocytes in the wall of the branchial heart incorporate all tested kinds of foreign materials, including bacterial cells due to phagocytosis achieved by the triangular mesenchymatic cells. The ultrastructural findings also give strong evidence that the triangular mesenchymatic cells are fixed hemocytes that have migrated into the branchial heart tissue. The ingestion and digestion of allogeneic substances and bacteria or their debris by rhogocytes and/or all (forms of) hemocytes suggests the involvement of these either fixed or mobile endocytotic-active cells in the defense and detoxification system of cephalopods. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Beuerlein, K., Löhr, S., Westermann, B., Ruth, P. and Schipp, R. (2002) Components of the cellular defense and detoxification system of the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda), Tissue and Cell, 34(6), pp. 390-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040816602000708

APA Citation style: Beuerlein, K., Löhr, S., Westermann, B., Ruth, P., & Schipp, R. (2002). Components of the cellular defense and detoxification system of the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda). Tissue and Cell. 34(6), 390-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040816602000708