Malaria infection of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae activates immune-responsive genes during critical transition stages of the parasite life cycle

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 6115-6123

  Dimopoulos, George ^a   Seeley, Douglas ^a   Wolf, Anna ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epithelial barriers; Immune responses; Malaria parasite; Mosquito vector

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; MUCIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MARKER GENE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALARIA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 0032476592     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.21.6115     Document Type: Article

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