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Variability and Action Mechanism of a Family of Anticomplement Proteins in Ixodes ricinus

BACKGROUND: Ticks are blood feeding arachnids that characteristically take a long blood meal. They must therefore counteract host defence mechanisms such as hemostasis, inflammation and the immune response. This is achieved by expressing batteries of salivary proteins coded by multigene families. ME...

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Autores principales: Couvreur, Bernard, Beaufays, Jérôme, Charon, Cédric, Lahaye, Kathia, Gensale, François, Denis, Valérie, Charloteaux, Benoît, Decrem, Yves, Prévôt, Pierre-Paul, Brossard, Michel, Vanhamme, Luc, Godfroid, Edmond
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18167559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001400