Transcriptional Upregulation of Genes Related to Virulence Activation in Entamoeba histolytica

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 372-379

  Balderas Renteria, Isaias ^a   García Lázaro, J Francisco ^c   Carranza Rosales, Pilar ^d   Morales Ramos, Lilia H ^a   Galan Wong, Luis J ^a   Muñoz Espinosa, Linda E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR JOSÉ ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ   (Mexico)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

E. histolytica; Functional genomics; Genetic and phenotypic variability; Virulence triggering

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE MARKER; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOLYSIS; INOCULATION; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; TROPHOZOITE; UPREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIVER; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOZOITES; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 34047126507     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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