A systematic study on hemocyte identification and plasma prophenoloxidase from Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus at different developmental stages

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Wang, Zhixiang ^a   Lu, Anrui ^a   Li, Xuquan ^a,b   Shao, Qimiao ^a   Beerntsen, Brenda T ^c   Liu, Chaoliang ^b   Ma, Yajun ^d   Huang, Yamin ^e   Zhu, Huaimin ^d   Ling, Erjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Anhui Agriculture University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus; Differentiation; Hemocytes; Microscopy; Mosquito; Prophenoloxidase

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENOCYTOID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; LARVAL STAGE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROHEMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CATECHOL OXIDASE; CELL COUNT; CULEX; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME PRECURSORS; FEMALE; HEMOCYTES; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PUPA;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78650567184     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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