Leishmania amazonensis: Chemotaxic and osmotaxic responses in promastigotes and their probable role in development in the phlebotomine gut

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 152-157

  Barros, V C ^a   Oliveira, J S ^a   Melo, M N ^a   Gontijo, N F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Leishmania development; Osmotaxis; Phlebotomine sand flies; Promastigotes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; FEMALE; GLYCINE; GUANOSINE; HEPES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOSE; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MANNITOL; MOVEMENT; OSMOSIS; PSYCHODIDAE; SALIVARY GLANDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; PHLEBOTOMINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32644460118     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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