ICAM-L gene is conserved only in Leishmania species in the family of kinetoplastida

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 47-50

  Chiang, Su Chi ^a   Chang, Shu Ching ^a   Lee, Sho Tone ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ICAM; Kinetoplastida; Leishmania

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LIGAND; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA GERBELLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

KINETOPLASTIDA;

EID: 0037057064     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00159-7     Document Type: Article

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