Parasite killing in malaria non-vector mosquito Anopheles culicifacies species B: Implication of nitric oxide synthase upregulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Vijay, Sonam ^a   Rawat, Manmeet ^a   Adak, Tridibes ^a   Dixit, Rajnikant ^a   Nanda, Nutan ^a   Srivastava, Harish ^b   Sharma, Joginder K ^c   Prasad, Godavarthi B K S ^d   Sharma, Arun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b CIVIL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology ICMR   (India)

^d JIWAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOLYMPH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES INVASION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VECTOR CONTROL; ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES B; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEMOLYMPH; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT VECTORS; INTESTINES; KINETICS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITES; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79953760564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018400     Document Type: Article

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