Brugia malayi: Localization of nitric oxide synthase in a lymphatic filariid

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 92-98

  Pfarr, Kenneth M ^a   Fuhrman, Juliet A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCARIS SUUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; GASTROPODA; ILYANASSA; INVERTEBRATA; MURINAE; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033998493     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4474     Document Type: Article

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