Drosophila melanogaster as a model host to dissect the immunopathogenesis of zygomycosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 9367-9372

  Chamilos, Georgios ^a   Lewis, Russell E ^a,b   Hu, Jianhua ^a   Xiao, Lianchun ^a   Zal, Tomasz ^a   Gilliet, Michel ^a   Halder, Georg ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Innate immunity; Rhizopus; Toll receptor; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; HYPHAE; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; ZYGOMYCOSIS; ZYGOMYCOTA;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; RHIZOPUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 48249108357     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709578105     Document Type: Article

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