Characterization of developmentally-regulated activities in axenic amastigotes of Leishmania donovani

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-20

  Saar, Yehoshua ^a   Ransford, Asamoa ^a   Waldman, Ella ^a   Mazareb, Salam ^a   Amin Spector, Sigal ^a   Plumblee, Jodie ^b   Turco, Salvatore J ^b   Zilberstein, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amastigotes; Axenic amastigotes; In vitro differentiation; Leishmania donovani; Promastigotes

Indexed keywords

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CRICETINAE; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; PROLINE; SPLEEN; TEMPERATURE; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 0032169091     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00062-0     Document Type: Article

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