The major insect lipoprotein is a lipid source to mosquito stages of malaria parasite

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-162

  Atella, Georgia C ^a   Bittencourt Cunha, Paula R ^a   Nunes, Rodrigo D ^a   Shahabuddin, Mohammed ^b   Silva Neto, Mário A C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipid metabolism; Lipophorin; Malaria; Mosquito; Oocyst; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; INSECT PROTEIN; IODINE DERIVATIVE; LIPOPHORIN;

CYST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIPID; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID TRANSPORT; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPOROZOITE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; INSECT PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 57849161418     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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