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Influence of male and female Nippostrongylus brasiliensis on each other's distribution in the intestine of the rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Alba Gimenez  and
Marcel Roche
Alba Gimenez
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apartado 1827, Caracas–Venezuela
Marcel Roche
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apartado 1827, Caracas–Venezuela
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Nippostrongylus brasiliensis of either sex, 216 h old, were injected directly in the intestinal lumen of 10-week-old laparotomized male rats in the duodenum or near the ileocaecal valve and their position ascertained 24 h later. Males migrated anteriad farther when females were placed in the duodenum than when they were alone or when 32P tagged males were in the duodenum. Females migrated anteriad similarly when they were alone or when males were in the duodenum or when 32 P tagged females were injected in the duodenum. The findings are consistent with the idea that females attract males anteriad at a distance.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 305 - 310
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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