Programmed cell death in the unicellular protozoan parasite Leishmania

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-64

  Lee, N ^a   Bertholet, S ^a   Debrabant, A ^a   Muller, J ^a   Duncan, R ^a   Nakhasi, H L ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amastigote; Amphotericin B; Leishmania; Pentostam; Programmed cell death; Promastigote

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; CALPAIN; CASPASE INHIBITOR; CATHEPSIN; DNA; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

AMASTIGOTE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTOZOON; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEASE INHIBITORS;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036144405     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400952     Document Type: Article

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