The host defense of Drosophila melanogaster

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2007, Pages 697-743

  Lemaitre, Bruno ^a   Hoffmann, Jules ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Imd; Insect immunity; Pathogens; Recognition; Toll

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; JANUS KINASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RNA; ROS PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; STAT PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BEAUVERIA; BEAUVERIA BASSANIA; BLOOD CELL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EFFECTOR CELL; ENCAPSULATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; FAT BODY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMATOPOIESIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MELANOSIS; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUTH FLORA; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS ENTOMOPHILA; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VIRUS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEPSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; WASP; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FAT BODY; HEMOCYTES; HEMOLYMPH; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 34047268684     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.25.022106.141615     Document Type: Review

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