Effects of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae and its secondary metabolites on morphology and cytoskeleton plasmatocytes isolated from the greater wax moth, galleria mellonella

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1149-1159

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

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cellular immunity; Cytochalasin; Cytoskeleton; Destruxin; Fungal toxin; Galleria mellonella; Metarhizium anisopliae; Plasmatocytes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN D; DESTRUXIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL SPREADING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; LARVA; METABOLITE; MICROTUBULE; MOTH; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PSEUDOPODIUM;

EID: 0031280505     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(97)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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