Schistosoma mansoni: Use of a fluorescent indicator to detect nitric oxide and related species in living parasites

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-133

  Kohn, Andrea B ^a   Lea, Jeanne M ^a   Moroz, Leonid L ^a   Greenberg, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

4,5 diaminofluorescein 2 diacetate; DAF 2 DA; l NAME; NG nitro l arginine methyl ester; neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide; nitric oxide; nitric oxide synthase; nNOS; NO; NOS; Parasite host interactions; Schistosomiasis; Trematode

Indexed keywords

4,5 DIAMINOFLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; WORM;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 33646187520     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.013     Document Type: Article

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