Schistosoma mansoni miracidia transformed by particle bombardment infect Biomphalaria glabrata snails and develop into transgenic sporocysts

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 174-178

  Heyers, Oliver ^a   Walduck, Anna K ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^c   Bleiß, Wilfrid ^a   Lucius, Richard ^a   Dorbic, Tomislav ^d   Wittig, Burghardt ^e   Kalinna, Bernd H ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d Fachbereich Humanmedizin   (Germany)

^e MOLOGEN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HELMINTH DNA; PARAFFIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIRACIDIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SNAIL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 1242338082     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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