Cardoso and Dimopoulos show that mosquito hemocytes that are macrophages-like cells are agonists of the early stages of Plasmodium falciparum infection and play a critical role in maintaining ...

Background: Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is an essential epigenetic regulator of hematopoietic differentiation, which can specifically mono-methylate H3K4 (H3K4me1) and di-methylate H3K4 ...

Hemocytes play unequivocally central roles in host immune defense of bivalve mollusks, though the exact mechanisms underlying their functional differentiation are only partially understood. To this ...