Acidocalcisomes in Apicomplexan parasites

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-9

  Miranda, Kildare ^a,b   Souza, Wanderley de ^b   Plattner, Helmut ^c   Hentschel, Joachim ^c   Kawazoe, Urara ^d   Fang, Jianmin ^a   Moreno, Silvia N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acidocalcisomes; Apicomplexan; Eimeria acervulina; Plasmodium falciparum; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

BAFILOMYCIN A1; CALCIUM; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; IONOMYCIN; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; ZINC;

ACIDOCALCISOME; APICOMPLEXA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ORGANELLE; EIMERIA; EIMERIA TENELLA; EUKARYOTE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; CALCIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ORGANELLES; PHOSPHORUS; PLASMODIUM; TOXOPLASMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 37349048536     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.07.009     Document Type: Review

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