Immunocytochemical localization of glutamate-like immunoreactivity within the nervous system of the cestode Mesocestoides corti and the trematode Fasciola hepatica

Parasitology Research

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 423-427

  Brownlee, David J A ^a   Fairweather, Ian ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESOCESTOIDEA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESOCESTOIDES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; CATOSTOMIDAE; CESTODA; CYCLOPHYLLIDEA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; MESOCESTOIDES CORTI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0029994491     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050139     Document Type: Article

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