Insect immunity and its implication in mosquito-malaria interactions

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-14

  Dimopoulos, George ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PEPTIDE;

ANOPHELES; CELL ENCAPSULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DROSOPHILA; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPITHELIUM; FAT BODY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLASMODIUM; SELF TOLERANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037240250     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00252.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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