Vitamin B12 changes in Nippostrongylus brasiliensis in its free-living and parasitic habitats with biochemical implications

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Weinstein, Paul P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAZOA; NEMATODA; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; OCHROMONAS MALHAMENSIS; ANIMALIA; FILARIA;

CYANOCOBALAMIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LUNG; MALE; METABOLISM; NEMATODIASIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; FECES ANALYSIS; FILARIA; NEMATODE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; INTESTINE, SMALL; LARVA; LUNG; MALE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 0029665158     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284106     Document Type: Article

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