Science, Vol 209, Issue 4460, 1028-1029
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Specific antibodies: a potential insecticide
G Nogge
and
M Giannetti
When tsetse flies are fed on human blood, the hemolymph of the flies contains human albumin. If the flies then ingest antibodies to human albumin, they die within a short time. The albumin fraction in their hemolymph disappears and osmoregulation is severely disturbed.