Host immunity modulates transcriptional changes in a multigene family (yir) of rodent malaria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 636-647

  Cunningham, Deirdre A ^a   Jarra, William ^a   Koernig, Sandra ^a   Fonager, Jannik ^a   Fernandez Reyes, Delmiro ^a   Blythe, Jane E ^a   Waller, Cecilia ^a   Preiser, Peter R ^b   Langhorne, Jean ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RODENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA; SIMIAE; VIR;

EID: 27444435096     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04840.x     Document Type: Article

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