Honti, V., Kurucz, E., Csordas, G., Laurinyecz, B., Markus, R., Ando, I. (2009). In vivo detection of lamellocytes in Drosophila melanogaster. Immunol. Lett. 126(1-2): 83--84.
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FBrf0208752
Publication Type
Research paper
Abstract
Drosophila has recently become a powerful model organism for studies of innate immunity. The cellular elements of innate immunity in Drosophila, the hemocytes, have been characterized by morphological criteria, molecular markers, and cell-type-specific immunological markers. Here we suggest that an MiET1 GFP-reporter element insertion in the untranslated region of a gene (l1-atilla) - expressed in a subset of hemocytes, the lamellocytes - allows in vivo investigations of lamellocyte differentiation and facilitates genetic screens.
