Mosquito immune responses and malaria transmission: Lessons from insect model systems and implications for vertebrate innate immunity and vaccine development

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 429-442

  Barillas Mury, Carolina ^a   Wizel, Benjamin ^b   Soo Han, Yeon ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; Insect; Malaria; Mosquito; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROZOITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0034040939     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00018-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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