Factors affecting trypanosome maturation in tsetse flies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Macleod, Ewan Thomas ^a   Darby, Alistair Charles ^a   Maudlin, Ian ^a   Welburn, Sue Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CYSTEINE; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ARGININE; GLUTATHIONE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CATTLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVARY GLAND; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; CATTLE; CYSTEINE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; INTESTINES; MALE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 55349115078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000239     Document Type: Article

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