Episomal and stable expression of the luciferase reporter gene for quantifying Leishmania spp. infections in macrophages and in animal models

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-206

  Roy, Gaétan ^a   Dumas, Carole ^a   Sereno, Denis ^a   Wu, Ying ^a   Singh, Ajay K ^a   Tremblay, Michel J ^a   Ouellette, Marc ^a   Olivier, Martin ^a   Papadopoulou, Barbara ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal infections; Leishmania; Luciferase; Macrophages

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LUCIFERASES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0033747235     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00270-X     Document Type: Article

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