Signal Transduction for Cecropin B Gene Expression in Adherent Hemocytes of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-143

  Shimabukuro, Michio ^a,b   Xu, Jinhua ^a   Sugiyama, Masao ^a,c   Taniai, Kiyoko ^a   Kadono Okuda, Keiko ^a   Kato, Yusuke ^a   Yamamoto, Masanori ^a   Chowdhury, Subrata ^a   Choi, Su Kyung ^a   Choi, Hong Kyu ^a   Miyanoshita, Akihiro ^a   Debnath, Nitish C ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c Hokko Chem Indust Ctrl Res Labs ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Cecropin; Gene expression; Lipopolysaccharide; Protein kinases; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030060530     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.31.135     Document Type: Article

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