Ultrastructural localization of a sialic acid-specific hemolymph lectin in the hemocytes and other tissues of the hard tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari; Chelicerata)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-221

  Kuhn, K H ^a   Uhlir J ^b   Grubhoffer, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOLYMPH; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HEMOCYTES; HEMOLYMPH; IXODES; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; SIALIC ACIDS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHELICERATA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; LAMIINAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0029882031     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050098     Document Type: Article

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