Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry discharge correlates with activation of the early growth response 2 host cell transcription factor

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4703-4712

  Phelps, Eric D ^a   Sweeney, Kristin R ^a   Blader, Ira J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; CYTOCHALASIN D; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; HUMANS; MICE; NEOSPORA; ORGANELLES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 53649111607     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01447-07     Document Type: Article

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