Onchocerca volvulus: Ultrastructural localization of two glutathione S-transferases

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-42

  Wildenburg, Gabriele ^a   Liebau, Eva ^a   Henkle Dührsen, Kimberly ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME;

ARTICLE; CUTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; MUSCLE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

HYPODERRIS; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0031927997     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4189     Document Type: Article

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