Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6374089 | Current Opinion in Insect Science | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Functional genomic approaches based on expression of recombinant proteins linked to biochemical and disease model approaches resulted in the discovery of novel biological activities and the role some of these proteins play in disease transmission. Importantly, the expression of salivary proteins was recently shown to be affected by environmental factors and by the presence of the pathogen in the salivary gland. A practical application resulting from insect saliva research is the use of insect antigenic salivary protein as biomarkers of vector exposure in humans and animal reservoirs, an approach that is yielding interesting results in the field.
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Authors
Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, Anderson B Guimarães-Costa, Jesus G Valenzuela,