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Prophenoloxidase-Mediated Ex Vivo Immunity to Delay Fungal Infection after Insect Ecdysis

Skin immunity protects animals from airborne pathogen infection. Unlike mammals, arthropods, including insects, undergo periodic ecdysis to grow and develop. Newly molted insects emerge with unsclerotized thin cuticles but successfully escape pathogenic infections during the post-molt period. Here w...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jie, Huang, Wuren, Yuan, Chuanfei, Lu, Yuzhen, Yang, Bing, Wang, Cheng-Yuan, Zhang, Peng, Dobens, Leonard, Zou, Zhen, Wang, Chengshu, Ling, Erjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29163517
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01445