Lee D L, Nicholls C D
Parasitology. 1983 Jun;86 (Pt 3):477-80. doi: 10.1017/s0031182000050666.
Plasma etching has been used to strip away the cortical layers of the cuticle of adult Nippostrongylus brasiliensis to reveal the struts, with their supporting fibres, which are found in the fluid-filled middle layer of the cuticle, and the basal fibre layers. The etched specimens were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy. The results support earlier work, obtained by transmission electron microscopy, on the cuticle of this nematode. Plasma etching has been shown to have potential in studying the structure of nematodes.
等离子体蚀刻已被用于剥去成年巴西日圆线虫角质层的皮质层，以揭示支柱及其支撑纤维，这些支柱和支撑纤维存在于角质层充满液体的中间层以及基部纤维层中。通过扫描电子显微镜对蚀刻后的标本进行了研究。结果支持了早期通过透射电子显微镜对该线虫角质层所做的研究工作。已证明等离子体蚀刻在研究线虫结构方面具有潜力。
