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EXPERIMENTS recorded in a recent paper1 have shown that the hæmocytic reaction of insects to parasites and other foreign bodies in their hæmocœle is stimulated by properties of the surfaces of those objects. In an article2 the publication of which has been delayed, I have brought together observations which suggest that the hæmocytes of an insect react to any surface which lacks specific properties of the surfaces which they themselves lay down, or contribute to, about the organs and tissues of the insect of which they form part.
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Salt, G., Proc. Roy. Soc., B, 151, 446 (1960).
Salt, G., in “The Cell and the Organism” (Camb. Univ. Press, 1961).
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SALT, G. Surface of a Parasite and the Hæmocytic Reaction of its Host. Nature 188, 162–163 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188162a0
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