Mining nematode genome data for novel drug targets

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 101-104

  Foster, Jeremy M ^a   Zhang, Yinhua ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Carlow, Clotilde K S ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FILARIASIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; MALARIA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; REVIEW;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 13944271473     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.12.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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