Ligand-gated chloride channel subunits encoded by the Haemonchus contortus and Ascaris suum orthologues of the Caenorhabditis elegans gbr-2 (avr-14) gene

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-140

  Jagannathan, Suchitra ^a   Laughton, David L ^a   Critten, Catherine L ^a   Skinner, Thomas M ^a   Horoszok, Lucy ^a   Wolstenholme, Adrian J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Glutamate receptor; Ivermectin; Nervous system

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IVERMECTIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; GENES, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHUS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032886567     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00120-6     Document Type: Article

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