AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF ORIGINS AND PHYSIOLOGY OF HAEMOCYTES IN BLUE BLOW-FLY CALLIPHORA ERYTHROCEPHALA (MEIG)
AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF ORIGINS AND PHYSIOLOGY OF HAEMOCYTES IN BLUE BLOW-FLY CALLIPHORA ERYTHROCEPHALA (MEIG)
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10.1002/jez.1401570309
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1964-01-01
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CROSSLEY, AC
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CROSSLEY, AC
The haemo-cytes present in all stages of the larva, pupa, and early adult of the Blue Blow-fly Calliphora erythrocephala were described using the phase contrast microscope. The occurrence in the larval haemocyte cytoplasm of lipids, complex carbohydrates and certain enzymes, notably O-diphenol oxidase, peroxidase, and acid phosphatase, provided a histochemical separation of types which was related to phase contrast morphology. Haemocyte phagocytic potential was measured, and filamentous extensions of the cell membrane, visible in phase contrast illumination were noted on all phagocytic cell types. Phagocytes responsible for engulfment of histolysing prepupal tissues were found to possess strong acid phosphatase activity, and the enzyme was apparently associated with cyto-plasmic vacuoles 3 [mu] or less in diameter. Preliminary electron microscopical studies of the prepupal phagocytic type revealed at least 6 types of vacuole, distinguished on the basis of osmophilia and fine structure. All 6 types appeared to be bounded by single smooth membranes. Attention was drawn to the similarity of some of these vacuole types to protein degradation vacuoles seen in mouse kidney, and to lysosomes as defined by Novikoff (1961). The latter correlation is strengthened by the observation that acid phosphatase activity normally contained within the cells was released into the haemolymph by lecithinase treatment. The origins of larval and imaginal haemocytes were considered. Experimental evidence for a haemocytopoietic mass in the vicinity of the posterior spiracles was obtained by comparison of mitotic indices of accumulations of haemocytes with the mitotic index for circulating haemocytes. The mitotic index of the posterior haemocytopoietic mass was found to be related to the weight of blood lost in an experimental haemorrhage. It was suggested that most larval haemocytes were broken down during pupal life, and that imaginal haemocytes may arise from cells derived from abdominal hypodermal histoblasts.