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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2025

Characterization of Mosquito Salivary Components.

Bruno Arcà, Maria Greta Dipaola, Giulia Bevivino, Fabrizio Lombardo

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Bruno ArcàDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. bruno.arca@uniroma1.it.
Maria Greta DipaolaDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giulia BevivinoDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Fabrizio LombardoDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mosquito saliva is a powerful cocktail of bioactive molecules that help blood feeding and, in virtue of their immunomodulatory properties, may modify the local environment at the bite site facilitating transmission and establishment of mosquito-borne pathogens. We describe here some basic experimental procedures for studying and characterizing mosquito salivary components. These include mosquito salivary gland dissection, preparation of salivary gland protein extracts, and collection of mosquito saliva, both on a small scale from individual mosquitoes and on a larger scale by artificial membrane feeding from hundreds of caged mosquitoes at the same time.

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CulicidaeInsect ProteinsSalivaSalivary GlandsSalivary Proteins and PeptidesAnimalsInsect ProteinsSalivary Proteins and PeptidesmiRNAsMosquito salivaSaliva collectionSalivary proteins

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