Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential to Regulate Innate Immune Cells and Fight Bacterial Infection in Drosophila

Jennifer C. Regan; Ana S. Brandão; Alexandre B. Leitão; Ângela Raquel Mantas Dias; Élio Sucena; António Jacinto; Anna Zaidman-Rémy

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003720

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Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential to Regulate Innate Immune Cells and Fight Bacterial Infection in Drosophila

Jennifer C. Regan,

Current address: Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Ana S. Brandão,

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Alexandre B. Leitão,

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
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Ângela Raquel Mantas Dias,

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Élio Sucena,

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Edifício C2, Lisboa, Portugal
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António Jacinto,

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Anna Zaidman-Rémy

* E-mail: anna.zaidman@insa-lyon.fr

Current address: INSA-Lyon, INRA, UMR203 BF2I, Biologie Fonctionnelle Insectes et Interactions, Villeurbanne, France.

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential to Regulate Innate Immune Cells and Fight Bacterial Infection in Drosophila

Jennifer C. Regan,
Ana S. Brandão,
Alexandre B. Leitão,
Ângela Raquel Mantas Dias,
Élio Sucena,
António Jacinto,
Anna Zaidman-Rémy

Published: October 24, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003720

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