Neonicotinoid clothianidin adversely affects insect immunity and promotes replication of a viral pathogen in honey bees

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18466-18471

  Di Prisco, Gennaro ^a   Cavaliere, Valeria ^b   Annoscia, Desiderato ^c   Varricchio, Paola ^a   Caprio, Emilio ^a   Nazzi, Francesco ^c   Gargiulo, Giuseppe ^b   Pennacchio, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; DWV; Neuroimmunity; NLR (CLR); Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; CLOTHIANIDIN; IMIDACLOPRID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; LEUCINE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT PROTEIN; NEONICOTINOID; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE CHLORPYRIPHOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; DRUG EXPOSURE; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; HONEYBEE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; VIRUS FORMS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; DWV; NEUROIMMUNITY; NLR (CLR); TOXICOLOGY;

ANABASINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BEES; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GUANIDINES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECTICIDES; ITALY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84887424712     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314923110     Document Type: Article

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