A novel developmentally regulated galectin of Onchocerca volvulus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 187-195

  Joseph, Gerald T ^a   Huima, Tellervo ^a   Klion, Amy ^b   Lustigman, Sara ^a  

^a Lindsley F Kimball Res Inst N   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen; Galectin; Larvae; Onchocerca volvulus; Putatively immune individuals

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GALACTOSIDES; GALECTINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0033953975     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00208-X     Document Type: Article

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