Endocytic portals in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote forms

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 321-322

  Soares, Maurilio José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CONCANAVALIN A; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; TRANSFERRIN;

ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIMASTIGOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; LIPID RAFT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ENDOCYTOSIS; MICROTUBULES; ORGANELLES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33748887226     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0189-9     Document Type: Review

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