Establishment of phagocytic cell lines from larval hemocytes of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 183-186

  Yasunaga Aoki, Chisa ^a   Imanishi, Shigeo ^b   Iiyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawarabata, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cloning; Glutathione; Hemolymph; Karyotype; Lepidopteran insect; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL CLONING; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; LARVAL STAGE; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONE CELLS; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUTATHIONE; HEMOLYMPH; LARVA; PHAGOCYTES; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; VAIRIMORPHA; VAIRIMORPHA SP.;

EID: 12144259018     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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