Isolation, cloning, and expression of fatt-acid binding proteins from Fasciola gigantica

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 86-91

  Smooker, Peter M ^a   Hickford, Danielle E ^b   Vaiano, Sam A ^b   Spithill, Terry W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030974781     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.4098     Document Type: Article

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