Phagocyte spreading and phagocytosis in the compound ascidian Botryllus schlosseri: Evidence for an integrin-like, RGD-dependent recognition mechanism

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 345-354

  Ballarin, Loriano ^a   Scanferla, Massimo ^a   Cima, Francesca ^a   Sabbadin, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Botryllus; Integrins; Phagocytes

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARAGINYLSERINE; ARGINYLGLYCYLGLUTAMINYLSERINE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; INTEGRIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TETRAPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORTMANNIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; INCUBATION TIME; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 0036125306     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(01)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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