The Drosophila systemic immune response: Sensing and signalling during bacterial and fungal infections

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 862-874

  Ferrandon, Dominique ^a   Imler, Jean Luc ^a   Hetru, Charles ^a   Hoffmann, Jules A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MYCOSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 35549006674     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2194     Document Type: Review

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