Toxoplasma gondii: A paraformaldehyde-insensitive diaphorase activity acts as a specific histochemical marker for the single mitochondrion

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-139

  Seeber, Frank ^a,b   Ferguson, David J P ^c   Gross, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032079059     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4266     Document Type: Article

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