MAPK ERK signaling regulates the TGF-bβ1-dependent mosquito response to plasmodium falciparum

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Surachetpong, Win ^a   Singh, Naresh ^a   Cheung, Kong Wai ^a   Luckhart, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDGUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE GENE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CELL CULTURE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 66349113763     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000366     Document Type: Article

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