Centrin in Giardia lamblia - Ultrastructural localization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-96

  Corrêa, Gladys ^a   Morgado Diaz, José Andres ^b   Benchimol, Marlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Centrin; Electron microscopy; Giardia lamblia; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CENTRIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AXONEME; FLAGELLUM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KINETOSOME; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; FLAGELLA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 1642418257     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.01.043     Document Type: Article

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