The use of insect models to study human pathogens

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 105-110

  Kemp, M W ^a   Massey, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FLUCYTOSINE; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN BZLF1; INTERLEUKIN 1; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMAL; MANDUCA SEXTA; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

EID: 42049123037     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2007.06.007     Document Type: Review

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