Project description:This project aims to investigate the immuno-physiology of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus, by analysing the effect of blood ingestion and Trypanosoma cruzi colonisation of its digestive tract on the modulation of protein expression in the hemolymph.
Project description:Monitoring of expression pattern of Rhodnius prolixus A1 aspartic proteases after their enrichment by pepstatin A affinity chromatography from the anterior midgut tissue.
