Ticks: Physiological aspects with implications for pathogen transmission

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-22

  Reuben Kaufman, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluid secretion; Osmoregulation; Pathogen transmission; Salivary glands; Ticks; Water vapour uptake

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADRENALIN; BUTYROPHENONE; DOPAMINE; ERGOCORNINE; ERGOT ALKALOID; ERGOTAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

BIOFILTRATION; DESICCATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEMOLYMPH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OSMOREGULATION; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION; SALIVATION; SHORT SURVEY; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ARGASIDAE; IXODIDA; THOGOTO VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949290656     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2009.12.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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