Identifier: generalphysiolo00verw (find matches)
Title: General physiology; an outline of the science of life
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Verworn, Max, 1863-1921 Lee, Frederic S. (Frederic Schiller), 1859-1939, ed. and tr
Subjects: Physiology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limited New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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onditions of themonads are only naked protoplasmic bodies, their behaviour inseeking and ingesting food is so remarkable that it seems to bethe work of conscious beings. Thus, Colpodella pugnax piercesthe Ghlamydomonas, sucks up the chlorophyll that flows out, and L 2 148 GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY runs away. A second rare case of this kind is afforded by Vampy-rella Bpirogyrm. The amoeba of this species applies itself to ahealthy Spirogyra, bores through the cell-wall and devours theslowly escaping primordial utricle together with the chlorophyll-bands. It seems to be able to satisfy its hunger upon Spirogyraonly. (Fig. 48.) But we need not search so far. In the human body there are cellsthat behave similarly. As Metschnikoff (92) has shown by hisresearches extending over many years, the leucocytes or whiteblood-corpuscles, the amoeboid wandering-cells, devour and digestcertain forms of bacteria present in the body, while they scornand even directly avoid other bacteria; likewise, intestinal
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Fig. 4S. — Vam/pyrella Spirogyrce boring into and suck-ing out a Spirogyra-ceU.. A. The Spirogyra-cell ispierced and the contents are passing out into theVampyrella. B. The Spirogyra-eeH is completelyemptied. At * a cell that has been pierced andemptied. (After Cienkowski.) epithelium-cells, as has been seen, devour only fat-droplets, whilethey behave wholly passively toward other small particles that arebrought into the intestine, such as granules of carmine. Finally, another very interesting phenomenon, which has to dowith the ingestion, not of food, but of substances that likewiseplay a role in the life of the organisms in question, has alsofrequently been referred to, although incorrectly, as a power ofselection on the part of the cell. This is the ingestion of materialfor shells and capsules on the part of certain shell-bearingrhizopods. The Difflugice, which are unicellular fresh-waterRhizopocla whose naked protoplasmic bodies are fixed in a verydelicate urn-shaped or flask-sh

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