A lipophosphoglycan-independent method for isolation of infective Leishmania metacyclic promastigotes by density gradient centrifugation

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-103

  Späth, Gerald F ^a   Beverley, Stephen M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEANUT AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOCALYX; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 0035669096     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2001.4656     Document Type: Article

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