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This Week in Parasitism

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TWiP #5 - The nurse cell

1 tim 19 min•4 mars 2010

Vincent and Dick discuss the nurse cell, a unique structure formed in the host muscle by Trichinella species.

Host links: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

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

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