NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Mosquito Immune Responses and Malaria Transmission
Mosquito Immune Responses and Malaria Transmission is a funding opportunity from NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, up to 1969209.
Overview
We discovered a novel cellular response of midgut progenitors (stem cells and enteroblasts) to Plasmodium berghei infection in Anopheles stephensi. We found that the presence of developing oocysts triggers proliferation of midgut progenitors that is modulated by the Jak/STAT pathway and is proportional to the number…