Microbial infection causes the appearance of hemocytes with extreme spreading ability in monolayers of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 689-700

  Dean, Paul ^a,c   Richards, Elaine H ^b   Edwards, John P ^b   Reynolds, Stuart E ^a   Charnley, Keith ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; BSA, bovine serum albumin; Cell spreading; Cellular immunity; Confocal microscopy; dH2O, distilled water; EDTA, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; Hemocytes; Laminarin; Manduca sexta; Photorhabdus luminescens

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; LAMINARAN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BLOOD CELL; CELL SPREADING; CELL TYPE; CELL WALL; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INSECT; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORHABDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO; WORM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEAUVERIA; BOVINAE; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 1642271236     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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