Chemical Nature and Mode of Stabilization of Egg‐shell in Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Opecoelidae)

@article{Kalantan1992ChemicalNA,
  title={Chemical Nature and Mode of Stabilization of Egg‐shell in Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Opecoelidae)},
  author={A. M. N. Kalantan and Misbahul Arfin and Mohamed S Alyousif},
  journal={Acta Zoologica},
  year={1992},
  volume={73},
  pages={153-156}
}
The chemical nature and mode of stabilization of egg-shell protein in digenetic trematode Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) have been investigated using histochemical techniques. It was found that the egg-shell is stabilized by quinone-tanning together with dityrosine. Other structural proteins (elastin, collagen and keratin-like proteins), glycogen and acid mucopolysaccharides were absent in egg-shell. Tyrosine was present in vitelline cells and immature egg-shell indicating that the… 
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