Evolution of host innate defence: Insights from Caenorhabditis elegans and primitive invertebrates

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-58

  Irazoqui, Javier E ^a   Urbach, Jonathan M ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE RECEPTOR HOMOLOGUE 1; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE;

EID: 72949096858     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2689     Document Type: Review

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