Salivary gland-specific P. berghei reporter lines enable rapid evaluation of tissue-specific sporozoite loads in mosquitoes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ramakrishnan, Chandra ^a,d   Rademacher, Annika ^a   Soichot, Julien ^a   Costa, Giulia ^a,e   Waters, Andrew P ^b   Janse, Chris J ^c   Ramesar, Jai ^c   Franke Fayard, Blandine M ^c   Levashina, Elena A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; VACCINE; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE SILENCING; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGEN LOAD; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; REPORTER GENE; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CULICIDAE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PARASITE LOAD; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; SPOROZOITES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860507115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036376     Document Type: Article

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