Thursday
Mar042010
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 08:15AM This Week in Parasitism #5: The nurse cell
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
On episode 5 of the podcast "This Week in Parasitism", Vincent and Dick discuss the nurse cell, a unique structure formed in the host muscle by Trichinella species.
Download TWiP #5 (57 MB .mp3, 79 minutes)
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Links for this episode:
- Infective muscle larva (jpg)
- Schematic of a larva invading a muscle cell
- Nurse cell formation (scroll down the page)
- Dickson's gallery of Trichinella images
- Electron micrographs of stichocytes
(click on Dickson, then EM, then stichocytes)
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