Advances in dissecting mosquito innate immune responses to arbovirus infection

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2061-2072

  Fragkoudis, Rennos ^a   Attarzadeh Yazdi, Ghassem ^a   Nash, Anthony A ^a   Fazakerley, John K ^a   Kohl, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN DCR 2; PROTEIN R2D2; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; RIBONUCLEASE III; SERINE PROTEINASE; STAT PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARBOVIRUS; CELL DEATH; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ARBOVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARBOVIRUSES; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT VECTORS;

EID: 70349319682     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.013201-0     Document Type: Review

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