Schistosoma mansoni: Localization of the SmIMP25 protein in the subtegumental extracellular matrix of schistosomula

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 218-221

  Jiang, Jiawan ^a   Caulfield, John P ^a   Markovics, Alexander ^b   Daniela, Ram ^b   Scheckter, Israel ^b  

^a ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WORM TEGUMENT;

EID: 0029898460     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0027     Document Type: Article

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