Relish, a central factor in the control of humoral but not cellular immunity in Drosophila

Molecular Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 827-837

  Hedengren, Marika ^a,b   Åsling, Bengt ^b,e   Dushay, Mitchell S ^b,d   Ando, Istvan ^a,c   Ekengren, Sophia ^a,b   Wihlborg, Margareta ^b   Hultmark, Dan ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 0033231556     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80392-5     Document Type: Article

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