Comprehensive Genetic Dissection of the Hemocyte Immune Response in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lombardo, Fabrizio ^a,b   Ghani, Yasmeen ^a,c   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a   Christophides, George K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR; CYTOCHALASIN D; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LUCIFERASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEMOCYTES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; INSECT PROTEINS; OOCYSTS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84875059385     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003145     Document Type: Article

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