Essential role of chitinase in the development of the filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-228

  Tachu, Babila ^a   Pillai, Smitha ^a   Lucius, Richard ^a   Pogonka, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; VACCINE;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA VITEAE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FILARIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CHITINASE; DIPETALONEMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 37749035047     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00701-07     Document Type: Article

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