Protozoan parasite-specific carbohydrate structures

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 499-505

  Mendonça Previato, Lucia ^a   Todeschini, Adriane Regina ^a   Heise, Norton ^a   Previato, Jose Osvaldo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING AGENT; CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCAN; GLYCAN INHIBITOR; GLYCOCONJUGATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL SURFACE; DRUG TARGETING; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GLYCOCONJUGATES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; TRYPANOSOMA;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 25844527419     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2005.08.011     Document Type: Review

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