Shedding light on toll signaling through live imaging

Fly

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-146

  DeLotto, Robert ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral axis; NFkappaB; Pattern formation; Rab5; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; ENDOSOME; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENDOSOMES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 80052329338     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.5.2.14768     Document Type: Article

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