Article
A role for the Drosophila Toll/Cactus pathway in larval hematopoiesis.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 1998
Qiu P, Pan P C, Govind S
Abstract excerpt
In the Drosophila larva, blood cells or hemocytes are formed in the lymph gland. The major blood cell type, called plasmatocyte, is small, non-adhesive and phagocytic. Plasmatocytes differentiate into adhesive lamellocytes to form multilayered capsules around foreign substances or, in mutant mela...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Genes, Lethal
- Hematopoiesis
- Hemocytes
- Hemolymph
- Insect Proteins
- Larva
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Mutation
- Nuclear Proteins
- Phosphoproteins
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Signal Transduction
- Toll-Like Receptors