Inhibition of phagocytic activity of plasmatocytes isolated from Galleria mellonella by entomogenous fungi and their secondary metabolites

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 475-483

  Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a   Matha, Vladimir ^b   Götz, Peter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPEPTIDE; CYTOCHALASIN B; CYTOCHALASIN D; DESTRUXIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; INSECT; LARVA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMA CELL; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0030835341     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(96)00120-5     Document Type: Article

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