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Gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) in the common dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula L.: an ultrastructural study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

S. Hart
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth PL4 8AA
A. B. Wrathmell
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth PL4 8AA
J. E. Harris
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth PL4 8AA
T. A. Doggett
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth PL4 8AA

Extract

An increasing interest has been generated in the potential use of oral vaccines in the prevention of diseases of farmed fish (Ellis, 1985; Manning & Tatner, 1985). As part of an investigation of the fate of ingested antigenic material in fish we have in previous studies (Hart, Wrathmell & Harris, 1986 a, b) examined the ontogeny and morphology of GALT in the common dogfish at the light-microscopic level. GALT was shown to occupy three niches throughout the gut: as accumulations of leucocytes in the lamina propria and as individual cells in the lamina propria and epithelium.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1987

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