Stable RNA interference of host thrombospondin-1 blocks Trypanosoma cruzi infection

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2365-2370

  Simmons, Kaneatra J ^a   Nde, Pius N ^a   Kleshchenko, Yuliya Y ^a   Lima, Maria F ^a   Villalta, Fernando ^a  

^a University of Nashville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular infection; Human coronary artery smooth muscle cell; Knockdown; RNAi; Thrombospondin 1; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

THROMBOSPONDIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33646007995     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.054     Document Type: Article

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