Onchocerca volvulus: Microfilariae secrete elastinolytic and males nonelastinolytic matrix-degrading serine and metalloproteases

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 26-33

  Haffner, Anke ^a   Guilavogui, Albert Z ^b   Tischendorf, Frank W ^a   Brattig, Norbert W ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Bernhard Nocht Inst for Trop Med   (Guinea)

Author keywords

1,10 phenanthroline, excretory secretory (ES) products; 3,4 dichloroisocouramin (DCI); Collagen; Elastin; Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA); Extracellular matrix; Fibronectin; Immunoglobulin G (IgG), phenylmethanesulfhonyl fluoride (PMSF); J trans epoxy succinyl leucylamide (4 guanidino) butane (E64); Laminin; Males; Microfilariae; Nematode; Onchocerca volvulus; Protease; Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel etectrophoresis (SDS PAGE); Tosyl lysyl chloromethyl ketone (TLCK)

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0031754465     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4313     Document Type: Article

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