Starvation alters the liver transcriptome of the innate immune response in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Martin, Samuel A M ^a   Douglas, Alex ^a   Houlihan, Dominic F ^a   Secombes, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN; CALPAIN 1; CATHEPSIN D; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN B; HEPCIDIN; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE DELTA ISOMERASE; LATHOSTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; PARVALBUMIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYUBIQUITIN; PRECEREBELLIN; PROTEASOME; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SEROTRANSFERRIN; SERUM AMYLOID A; SQUALENE MONOOXYGENASE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; FISH PROTEIN; OXYGEN; STEROID;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STARVATION; STEROID METABOLISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DIET RESTRICTION; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PROTEINS; FASTING; FISH DISEASES; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; OXYGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMO SALAR; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77954169879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-418     Document Type: Article

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