Ascidian phenoloxidase: Its release from hemocytes, isolation, characterization and physiological roles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 769-776

  Hata, Shino ^a   Azumi, Kaoru ^a   Yokosawa, Hideyoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Ascidian; DOPA (3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine); Halocynthia roretzi; Hemocyte; Host defense; Humoral defense factor; Phenoloxidase

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; DOPA; EDETIC ACID; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; SEPHADEX; ZYMOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BLOOD CELL; ENZYME RELEASE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031817504     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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