Var transcription profiling of Plasmodium falciparum 3D7: Assignment of cytoadherent phenotypes to dominant transcripts

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gölnitz, Uta ^a   Albrecht, Letusa ^a   Wunderlich, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CRICETULUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 40149088787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-14     Document Type: Article

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