Antimicrobial mechanisms of fish leukocytes

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1238-1245

  Rieger, Aja M ^a   Barreda, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial defenses; B cell; Innate immunity; Macrophage; Monocyte; Neutrophil; Teleost fish

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUSION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULOCYTE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERNALIZATION; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESPIRATORY BURST; REVIEW; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE;

TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 83355169929     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2011.03.009     Document Type: Review

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