Tick innate immunity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 708, Issue , 2010, Pages 137-162

  Kopáček, Petr ^a   Hajdušek, Ondřej ^a   Burešová, Veronika ^a   Daffre, Sirlei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ANTIOXIDANT; DEFENSIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LECTIN; LYSOZYME; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THIOESTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMOLYMPH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; INVERTEBRATE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TICK; VECTOR COMPETENCE;

INVERTEBRATA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960715359     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8059-5_8     Document Type: Article

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