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Science 17 November 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3803, pp. 931 - 932
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3803.931
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Neurosecretory Cells in a Cestode, Hymenolepis diminuta

K. G. Davey 1 and W. R. Breckenridge 1

1 Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Macdonald College, Province of Quebec, Canada

A group of nerve cells in the rostellum become progressively more fuchsinophilic during the first 16 days of development; they then release their secretion into their axons at about the time that the first proglottid is released.

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