Abstract
Forty-seven carbohydrates failed to inhibit the cell aggregation and substrate adhesion behaviors of Mytilus californianus hemocytes. Treatment of hemocytes with sodium periodate and with YV-acetyl glucosaminidase interfered with these behaviors. Trypsin slightly reduced adhesion, and had no effect on aggregation. Hyaluronidase and neuraminidase failed to inhibit either behavior, and slightly enhanced them. An inhibitory effect of caffeine was not altered by hyaluronidase of N-acetyl-glucosaminidase, but neuraminidase partially reversed this inhibition. Inhibition by the calcium channel blocker verapamil was reversed by hyaluronidase. Cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion behaviors probably involve complex carbohydrates in molluscan hemocytes.
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