Pathways involved in environmental sensing in trypanosomatids

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 56-62

  Parsons, Marilyn ^a,b   Ruben, Larry ^c  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; PROTEIN KINASE;

CELL CYCLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CATTLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYCLIC AMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE;

EID: 0034141210     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01590-2     Document Type: Review

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