Response of the blood clotting system of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, to a novel form of lipopolysaccharide from a green alga

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 423-428

  Conrad, Mara L ^a,b   Pardy, R L ^c   Wainwright, Norman ^a   Child, Alice ^a   Armstrong, Peter B ^a,d  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood clotting; Endotoxin; Horseshoe crab; Innate immune system; Limulus; Lipopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

COAGULIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GREEN ALGA; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33745608971     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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