Cysteine proteases from bloodfeeding arthropod ectoparasites

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 712, Issue , 2011, Pages 177-191

  Sojka, Daniel ^a   Francischetti, Ivo M B ^b   Calvo, Eric ^b   Kotsyfakis, Michalis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LEGUMAIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; COPEPOD; ECTOPARASITE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK; TRIATOMINAE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CULICIDAE; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARASITES; TICKS;

EID: 80053297181     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8414-2_11     Document Type: Article

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