Brugia pahangi: In vivo tissue migration of early L3 alters gene expression

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-95

  Chirgwin, Sharon R ^a   Coleman, Sharon U ^a   Klei, Thomas R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugia; cDNA; Filariasis; Gene; Gene expression; Infection; L3; Migration; mRNA; Quantitative RT PCR; Subtractive hybridization; Third stage larvae

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TROPONIN C;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; DNA LIBRARY; FILARIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ISOLATION; GERBIL; INFECTION; LYMPH NODE; MOSQUITO; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FILARIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GERBILLINAE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LARVA; LYMPH NODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BRUGIA; BRUGIA PAHANGI; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 37348999211     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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