River blindness: A role for parasite retinoid-binding proteins in the generation of pathology?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 471-475

  Bradley, Jan E ^a   Nirmalan, Niroshini ^b   Kläger, Sabine L ^a   Faulkner, Helen ^a   Kennedy, Malcolm W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN;

COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; GENERAL PATHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE REPAIR; VISION;

ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; RETINOIDS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0035479012     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02036-0     Document Type: Review

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