Preliminary analysis of the proteolytic enzymes in the excretory-secretory products of the adult stages of the dog hookworm Uncinaria stenocephala

Parasite

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-70

  Kotomski, G ^a   Wedrychowicz, H ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Excretory secretory products; Hookworms; Proteinases; Uncinaria stenocepnola

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; UNCINARIA; UNCINARIA STENOCEPHALA;

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; 1,10-PHENANTHROLINE; 4 TOLUENESULFONYL FLUORIDE; 4-TOLUENESULFONYL FLUORIDE; CHELATING AGENT; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; EDETIC ACID; HELMINTH PROTEIN; IODOACETAMIDE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PEPSTATIN; PHENANTHROLINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; STREPTOMYCES PEPSIN INHIBITOR; TOLUENESULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOOKWORM INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARASITOLOGY; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; CHELATING AGENTS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EDETIC ACID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ETHYLMALEIMIDE; FECES; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IODOACETAMIDE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPSTATINS; PHENANTHROLINES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOSYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0035287276     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2001081067     Document Type: Article

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