Glycophorin A-knockout mice, which lost sialoglycoproteins from the red blood cell membrane, are resistant to lethal infection of Babesia rodhaini

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-101

  Takabatake, Noriyuki ^a   Okamura, Masashi ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Ikehara, Yuzuru ^b   Akimitsu, Nobuyoshi ^c   Arimitsu, Nagisa ^c   Hamamoto, Hiroshi ^c   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Babesia; Glycophorin A; Red blood cell; Sialic acid

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN A; LECTIN; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA RODHAINI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAACKIA; MAACKIA AMURENSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCOPHORIN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; TIME FACTORS;

BABESIA; BABESIA RODHAINI; MAACKIA AMURENSIS; MUS;

EID: 34547235622     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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