Programmed cell death in parasitic protozoans that lack mitochondria

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 559-564

  Chose, Olivier ^a   Sarde, Claude Olivier ^b   Gerbod, Delphine ^c   Viscogliosi, Eric ^c   Roseto, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MITOCHONDRION; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0344430169     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2003.09.016     Document Type: Article

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