Commitment to differentiation and cell cycle re-entry are coincident but separable events in the transformation of African trypanosomes from their bloodstream to their insect form

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2609-2618

  Matthews, Keith R ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Commitment; Differentiation; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; GLOSSINA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

ACONITIC ACID; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0030859603     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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