TGF-β signaling controls embryo development in the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 489-497

  Freitas, Tori C ^a   Jung, Euihye ^a   Pearce, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INHIBIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; HELMINTH PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGG PARASITOID; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

METAZOA; MUS; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERMES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 34250689543     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030052     Document Type: Article

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