Effect of the insect pathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus on insect phagocytes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-95

  Au, C ^a   Dean, P ^a   Reynolds, S E ^a   Ffrench Constant, R H ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CELL; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL KILLING; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT CELL; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORHABDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPERNATANT; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOCYTES; LARVA; MANDUCA; MICROFILAMENTS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORHABDUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; PHOTORHABDUS;

EID: 1642473046     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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