Local and systemic gene expression responses of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) to infection with the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Skugor, Stanko ^a   Glover, Kevin Alan ^b   Nilsen, Frank ^b,c   Krasnov, Aleksei ^a  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CD4 IMMUNOGLOBULIN; CD8ALPHA ANTIGEN; CHAPERONE; DEATH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN KINASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR TYPE I; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CELL STRESS; COPEPOD; DNA MICROARRAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; LOUSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH2 CELL; UPREGULATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ANIMAL; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CALIGIDAE; CRUSTACEA; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PISCES; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 56049091008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-498     Document Type: Article

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