Abstract
Following the distension of the gut wall by the blood meal taken by an adult female mosquito, the neurosecretory cells in the brain become activated and in turn induce the corpus allatum to produce a hormone which initiates ovarian development. Interruption of this cycle by decapitation or by application of a ligature at the neck or the base of the abdomen before a critical time period will prevent ovarian development (Clements, 1956; Detanova, 1945; Gillett, 1956; Larsen and Bodenstein, 1959). Since the malarial oocysts, like the ovaries, grow within the hemocoele of the mosquito and therefore draw upon nutritive and growth-promoting substances in the hemocoele, the possibility presents itself that the host hormones may also affect the parasite. The purpose of this study was to determine whether interruption of the hormone cycle involved in ovarian development would also affect the growth of the malarial oocysts.
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