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Cellular immune response to parasite infection in the Drosophila lymph gland is developmentally regulated.
Developmental biology - 1 Mar 2002
Sorrentino Richard Paul, Carton Yves, Govind Shubha
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms by which an organism becomes immune competent during its development are largely unknown. When infected by eggs of parasitic wasps, Drosophila larvae mount a complex cellular immune reaction in which specialized host blood cells, lamellocytes and crystal cells, are activated and recruited to build a capsule around the parasite egg to block its development. Here, we report that parasitization by the...
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