Vasodilatory activity in horsefly and deerfly salivary glands

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 395-402

  Rajska P ^a   Pechanova O ^a   Takac P ^a   Kazimirova M ^a   Roller, L ^a   Vidlicka, L ^a   Ciampor, F ^a   Labuda, M ^a   Nuttall, P A ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chrysops; Haematopota; Horseflies; Hybomitra; Salivary gland; Tabanus; Vasodilatory activity

Indexed keywords

TISSUE EXTRACT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

DISEASE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; KINETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VASODILATATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; KINETICS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE EXTRACTS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; BROMIUS; CHRYSOPS; DIPTERA; HAEMATOPOTA; HAEMATOPOTA PLUVIALIS; HYBOMITRA; HYBOMITRA BIMACULATA; PLUVIALIS; RELICTUS; TABANIDAE;

EID: 1842425731     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2003.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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