From the cell biology to the development of new chemotherapeutic approaches against trypanosomatids: Dreams and reality

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages

  De Souza, Wanderley ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FLAGELLUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 1442280871     PISSN: 14759292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9292-1-3     Document Type: Review

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