Physical stress primes the immune response of Galleria mellonella larvae to infection by Candida albicans

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 628-634

  Mowlds, Peter ^a   Barron, Aoife ^a   Kavanagh, Kevin ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (Ireland)

Author keywords

2D gel electrophoresis; Antimicrobial proteins; Candida; Galleria mellonella; Gene expression; Host defence; MALDI TOF analysis

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BETA TUBULIN; CYCLOPHILIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIHYDRODIPICOLINATE SYNTHASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FLOTILLIN 1; GALIOMICIN; GALLERIMYCIN; INDUCIBLE METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; INSECT PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MYOSIN; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFERRIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOTHS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 44449155195     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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