Quantitation of Leishmania lipophosphoglycan repeat units by capillary electrophoresis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1760, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 710-714

  Barron, Tamara L ^a   Turco, Salvatore J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary electrophoresis; Leishmania; Lipophosphoglycan

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSAMINE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MANNOSE;

ACETYLATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; LEISHMANIA; MANNOSE; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 33646099828     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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