Expression and processing of Plasmodium berghei SERA3 during liver stages

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1723-1734

  Schmidt Christensen, Anja ^a   Sturm, Angelika ^a   Horstmann, Sebastian ^a   Heussler, Volker T ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS; HEPATOMA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIVER CELL; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; LIVER; MALARIA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; UP-REGULATION; VACUOLES;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 47549109590     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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