Acidic compartments and rhoptry formation in Toxoplasma gondii

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 435-443

  Shaw, M K ^a   Roos, D S ^a   Tilney, L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidic organelles; PH; Rhoptries; Rhoptry biogenesis; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

3,3' DIAMINODIPROPYLAMINE; ACID; ANILINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL LABELING; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DINITROBENZENES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONENSIN; ORGANELLES; TOXOPLASMA;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031759012     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098003278     Document Type: Article

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