Trypanosoma cruzi: Transport of essential metabolites acquired from the host;Trypanosoma cruzi: Transporte de metabolitos esenciales obtenidos del hospedador

Medicina

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 398-404

  Pereira, Claudio A ^a   Carrillo, Carolina ^b   Miranda, Mariana R ^a   Bouvier, Leon A ^a   Canepa, Gaspar E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aminoacids; Chagas disease; Permeases; Polyamines; Transporters; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; POLYAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DRUG TARGETING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; POLYAMINES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 57049154203     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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