Angiogenic activity of Onchocerca volvulus recombinant proteins similar to vespid venom antigen 5

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-99

  Tawe, Wilson ^a   Pearlman, Eric ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^c   Lustigman, Sara ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Filaria; Neovascularization; Ocular pathology; River blindness

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CORNEA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASP VENOMS;

EID: 0033848113     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00231-0     Document Type: Article

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