Haemonchus contortus: Cloning and functional expression of a cDNA encoding ornithine decarboxylase and development of a screen for inhibitors

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-184

  Klein, R D ^a   Favreau, M A ^a   Alexander Bowman, S J ^a   Nulf, S C ^a   Vanover, L ^a,b   Winterrowd, C A ^a   Yarlett, N ^a,c   Martinez, M ^a,c   Keithly, J S ^a,d   Zantello, M R ^a   Thomas, E M ^a   Geary, T G ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Apollon Inc   (United States)

^c PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EFLORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031282538     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4213     Document Type: Article

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