Pyrimidine transport activities in trypanosomes

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 187-189

  Bellofatto, Vivian ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOSIDE; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

LEISHMANIA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PURINE SYNTHESIS; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MUTATION; NUCLEOBASE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 34247281587     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.03.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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