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Anopheles gambiae Blood Feeding Initiates an Anticipatory Defense Response to Plasmodium berghei
19 Sept 2014
Abstract excerpt
Mosquitoes have potent innate defense mechanisms that protect them from infection by diverse pathogens. Much remains unknown about how different pathogens are sensed and specific responses triggered. Leucine-Rich repeat IMmune proteins (LRIMs) are a mosquito-specific family of putative innate receptors. Although some LRIMs have been implicated in mosquito immune responses, the function of most family members is...
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