Trypanosoma brucei: In vitro slender-to-stumpy differentiation of culture-adapted, monomorphic bloodstream forms

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 223-230

  Breidbach, Tanja ^a   Ngazoa, Elise ^b   Steverding, Dietmar ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP DERIVATIVE; CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CYCLIC AMP; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; THIONUCLEOTIDES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

INSECTA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0036707309     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00133-9     Document Type: Article

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