Innate immune responses regulate trypanosome parasite infection of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1194-1204

  Hu, Changyun ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACIN; CECROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIPTERICIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33745272838     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05180.x     Document Type: Article

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