Variant antigen expression in malaria infections: Posttranscriptional gene silencing, virulence and severe pathology

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-25

  Galinski, Mary R ^a,b   Corredor, Vladimir ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD36 ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGLUTINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HOST; MALARIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM COATNEYI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCHIZONT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; TROPHOZOITE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM COATNEYI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

EID: 1642472718     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2003.09.013     Document Type: Review

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