Parasites Lost [SEP] series
Parasites Lost
"Parasites Lost" is the second episode in season three of "Futurama". Although the title is a play on John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost", the episode is a parody of the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 21, 2001.
Plot.
While making a pit stop at an interstellar truck stop, Fry buys and eats a decaying egg salad sandwich from a vending machine in the restroom. Upon
determined by recognition of and regulation by salmon lice secretory/excretory products (SEP), which includes proteases and prostaglandin E2. The marine parasite secretes SEP into the damaged skin of the salmon which inhibits proteolytic activity. Proteolytic activity increases the amount of host peptides and amino acids that can be used as a source of nutrition and lowers the intensity of inflammatory responses.
See also.
- Aquaculture of salmon
- Atlantic salmon
- Fish diseases and parasites
- Pacific salmon
- Salmon
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