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| JAMES NARDISummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
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A hemocyte-specific integrin required for hemocytic encapsulation in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sextaDavid M Levin
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 35:369-80. 2005..These results indicate that activation of ligand-binding by the hemocyte-specific integrin plays a key role in stimulating plasmatocyte adhesion leading to encapsulation...- Neuroglian on hemocyte surfaces is involved in homophilic and heterophilic interactions of the innate immune system of Manduca sextaShufei Zhuang
Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Dev Comp Immunol 31:1159-67. 2007..The Ig domains of neuroglian are involved in both homophilic and heterophilic interactions, and subsets of these six different Ig domains may affect different functions of neuroglian... 
Regenerative cells and the architecture of beetle midgut epitheliaJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
J Morphol 273:1010-20. 2012....- Cell renewal in adjoining intestinal and tracheal epithelia of ManducaJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
J Insect Physiol 57:487-93. 2011..Tracheal regenerative cells and their neighboring midgut regenerative cells proliferate and differentiate in concert during the coordinated growth of the midgut and its associated muscles, nerves and tracheal cells... - Stem cells of the beetle midgut epitheliumJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
J Insect Physiol 56:296-303. 2010..This organization of stem cell pouches in insect midguts closely parallels that of regenerative crypts in mammalian intestines... - The larval alimentary canal of the Antarctic insect, Belgica antarcticaJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
Arthropod Struct Dev 38:377-89. 2009..These presumably represent stem cells for the adult midgut, while a ring of cells, marked by a discontinuity in nuclear size at the midgut-hindgut interface, presumably represents stem cells for the adult hindgut... - Distinctive features of the alimentary canal of a fungus-feeding hemipteran, Mezira granulata (Heteroptera: Aradidae)James B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, USA
Arthropod Struct Dev 38:206-15. 2009.... - Expression of lacunin, a large multidomain extracellular matrix protein, accompanies morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers in Manduca sextaJ B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 29:883-97. 1999..This rich patchwork of distinct domains probably exerts multiple effects on a variety of cell behaviors associated with the complex phenomenon of epithelial morphogenesis... - Neuroglian-positive plasmatocytes of Manduca sexta and the initiation of hemocyte attachment to foreign surfacesJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Dev Comp Immunol 30:447-62. 2006..However, if neuroglian-positive plasmatocytes are separated from most granular cells, attachment of these plasmatocytes to foreign surfaces is suppressed... - Clustering of adhesion receptors following exposure of insect blood cells to foreign surfacesJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Insect Physiol 51:555-64. 2005..The formation of ring-shaped clusters of these adhesion receptors on surfaces of insect immune cells represents an evolutionary antecedent of the mammalian immunological synapse... - Embryonic origins of the two main classes of hemocytes--granular cells and plasmatocytes--in Manduca sextaJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
Dev Genes Evol 214:19-28. 2004..By arising after basal laminae have been molded and remodeled by granular cells, plasmatocytes presumably do not encounter the cues that trigger their aggregation and an autoimmune response... - Hematopoietic organs of Manduca sexta and hemocyte lineagesJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Dev Genes Evol 213:477-91. 2003..The circulating plasmatocytes derived from hematopoietic organs have higher ploidy levels than the granular cells and represent a separate lineage of hemocytes... - Expression patterns of odorant-binding proteins in antennae of the moth Manduca sextaJames B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Cell Tissue Res 313:321-33. 2003.... - Specialization of midgut cells for synthesis of male isoprenoid pheromone components in two scolytid beetles, Dendroctonus jeffreyi and Ips piniJ B Nardi
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Tissue Cell 34:221-31. 2002..All, or most, midgut cells of male I. pini and D. jeffreyi can secrete pheromones as well as digestive enzymes... - An integrin-tetraspanin interaction required for cellular innate immune responses of an insect, Manduca sextaShufei Zhuang
Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
J Biol Chem 282:22563-72. 2007..These studies involving antibody blocking, RNA interference, and binding assays imply a trans interaction of integrin and tetraspanin on hemocyte surfaces... - Multiple alpha subunits of integrin are involved in cell-mediated responses of the Manduca immune systemShufei Zhuang
Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Dev Comp Immunol 32:365-79. 2008..The individual alpha subunits of M. sexta integrins, like their integrin counterparts in mammalian immune systems, have critical, individual roles in cell-substrate and cell-cell interactions during immune responses...
Research Grants
- Adnesion Receptors of the Insect Immune SystemJAMES NARDI; Fiscal Year: 2003..Understanding the molecular underpinnings of the insect immune response will clearly help in understanding the fate of pathogens in the blood of insect vectors of human diseases. ..