Morphological aspects of Culex quinquefasciatus salivary glands

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 219-226

  Da Cunha Sais, Tiago ^a   De Moraes, Rosa Maria ^a   Ribolla, Paulo E ^b   De Bianchi, Antonio G ^a   Marinotti, Osvaldo ^c   Bijovsky, A Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apyrase; Culex quinquefasciatus; Mosquito; Salivary gland; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

APYRASE;

APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON DENSE GRANULE; EPITHELIUM; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ION TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND DUCT; SECRETORY CELL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; WATER TRANSPORT;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS;

EID: 0141892171     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1467-8039(03)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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