Brugia malayi: Transient transfection by microinjection and particle bombardment

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-102

  Higazi, Tarig B ^a   Merriweather, Anthony ^a   Shu, Limin ^a   Davis, Richard ^b   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GOLD; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FILARIA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LARVA; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLISTICS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSFECTION;

BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI;

EID: 0036488799     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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