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K Katakura

Publications and source records attributed to K Katakura.

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PubMed1980

Tadpole of the clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, as an experimental intermediate host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

Frogs and toads, as paratenic hosts, are known to be sources of human angiostrongyliasis. The present investigation was carried out to examine the role of the tadpole as an experimental intermediate host. First-, second-, and third-stage larvae were found in tadpoles of Xenopus laevis from the 1st, 14th, and 18th days, respectively, after exposure to the first-stage larva of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Third-stage larvae collected from a frog which had metamorphosed from an exposed tadpole reached maturity and oviposited in an albino rat. This is the first demonstration that a vertebrate, the tadpole of X. laevis, can serve as an experimental intermediate host of A. cantonensis.

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PubMed1975

Demonstration by affinity chromatography of the cell-free synthesis of ribonuclease-specific immunoglobulin.

An immunoglobulin specific for RNase [EC 3.1.4.22] has been synthesized in a cell-free system containing either lymph node microsomes or polysomes or spleen polysomes from rats previously immunized with RNase. The synthesis of anti-RNase immunoglobulin was demonstrated by affinity chromatography using an RNase-Sepharose column. Supporting evidence for the cell-free synthesis of immunoglobulin was obtained by separating the synthesized immunoglobulin from other proteins by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 column chromatography and by neutralization of RNase activity with the separated immunoglobulin. Lymph nodes and spleen had an almost equal capacity to synthesize the immunoglobulin to RNase. Under our experimental conditions, 5 to 15 per cent of the total protein synthesis was directed toward immunoglobulin synthesis.

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