Reduced expression of lipophosphoglycan (LPG) and kinetoplastid membrane protein (KMP)-11 in Leishmania donovani promastigotes in axenic culture

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 644-647

  Mukhopadhyay, Srirupa ^a   Sen, Pradip ^a   Majumder, Hemanta K ^a   Roy, Syamal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031866803     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284745     Document Type: Article

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