Plasmodium falciparum suppresses the host immune response by inducing the synthesis of insulin-like peptides (ILPs) in the mosquito Anopheles stephensi

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-144

  Pietri, Jose E ^a   Pietri, Eduardo J ^a   Potts, Rashaun ^a   Riehle, Michael A ^b   Luckhart, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Immunity; Insulin; Insulin like peptide; Malaria; Mosquito; NF B; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

INSULIN LIKE PEPTIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOMATOMEDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZYMOSAN; INSECT HORMONE; INSECT PROTEIN; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PEPTIDE HORMONE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; INVERTEBRATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; INSECT HORMONES; INSECT PROTEINS; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 84937574412     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 18790089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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