Efflux systems and increased trypanothione levels in arsenite-resistant Leishmania

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-282

  Légaré, Danielle ^a   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a   Roy, Gaétan ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Rita ^b   Haimeur, Anass ^a   Dey, Saibal ^b   Grondin, Katherine ^a   Brochu, Christian ^a   Rosen, Barry P ^b   Ouellette, Marc ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; TRYPANOTHIONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; EFFUSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 0031282335     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4222     Document Type: Article

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