Putrescine active uptake system in the Trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 377, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 233-238

  Calonge, Mar ^a   Cubrfa, Juan C ^a   Balana Fouce, Rafael ^a   Ordöñez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Polyamines; Putrescine transport; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

EFLORNITHINE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; THIOL GROUP;

AMINE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0030012040     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.4.233     Document Type: Article

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