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SUBMITTER: Bryant WB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685016 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bryant William B WB Michel Kristin K
Developmental and comparative immunology 20151026
Hemocytes are crucial players of the mosquito immune system and critically affect transmission of pathogens including malaria parasites. We and others discovered previously that a blood meal is a major immune stimulus for mosquito hemocytes. To determine whether these blood meal-induced hemocyte changes in Anopheles gambiae constitute steps in cell differentiation or demonstrate transient cell activation, we analyzed the temporal pattern of these changes over the first three days post blood meal ...[more]