Toxicity of Cadmium and Mercury to Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Embryos and Larvae
β Scribed by M. L. Botton
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-4861
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## Abstract Granules were isolated from the cytoplasm of the amebocytes of __Limulus polyphemus__, the horseshoe crab, by disruption of cells obtained from blood which had been drawn into 2 mM propranolol. The granules subsequently were purified by centrifugation through a sucrose gradient that con