Innate immunity against moulds: Lessons learned from invertebrate models

Immunological Investigations

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 676-691

  Ben Ami, Ronen ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal models; Drosophila; Innate immunity; Invertebrates; Mycoses

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CECROPIN; DECTIN 1; DEFENSIN; DROSOCIN; DROSOMYCIN; GLIOTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HEMOLYMPH; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INHIBITION KINETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; INVERTEBRATE; IRON OVERLOAD; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOULD; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TISSUE REPAIR; VACCINATION; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; MYCOSES;

EID: 80053989870     PISSN: 08820139     EISSN: 15324311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08820139.2011.587218     Document Type: Article

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