Cloning and localisation of an avermectin receptor-related subunit from Haemonchus contortus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 177-187

  Delany, Natalie S ^a,b   Laughton, David L ^a,c   Wolstenholme, Adrian J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Cobra Therapeutics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avermectin; Glutamate receptor; Motor neurons; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AVERMECTIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; SEPHAGLAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRUG MECHANISM; FECES MICROFLORA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IVERMECTIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

EID: 0032583193     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00148-0     Document Type: Article

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