A mosquito mediator of parasite-induced immune priming

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• 作者：Maria L. Simõ ; es ; George Dimopoulos ^{gdimopo1@jhu.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：immune priming ; memory ; mosquito ; Plasmodium
• 刊名：Trends in Parasitology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：31
• 期：9
• 页码：402-404
• 全文大小：710 K

文摘

Immune memory is a central feature of the mammalian adaptive immune system. The more primitive innate immune system of insects has also been shown to comprise memory, or immune priming. A recent study has shed new light on how Plasmodium primes the mosquito immune system for greater resistance to a subsequent infection with the same pathogen.