Drosophila skeletal muscles regulate the cellular immune response against wasp infection

Drosophila melanogaster is widely used as a model organism to study the innate immune system because it lacks an adaptive immune response that could mask its innate immune response. The innate immune response of Drosophila primarily consists of humoral and cellular immune responses. The humoral immu...

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Main Author: Yang, Hairu
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Medicinska fakulteten) 2016
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125842
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7601-508-7