Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis transfectants overexpressing the miniexon gene lose virulence in vivo

Parasitology International

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-50

  de Toledo, Juliano Simões ^a   Junqueira dos Santos, André F ^a   Rodrigues de Moura, Tatiana ^b   Antoniazi, Simone Aparecida ^a   Brodskyn, Cláudia ^b,c   Indiani de Oliveira, Camila ^b   Barral, Aldina ^b,c   Cruz, Angela Kaysel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Institute de Investigação em Imunologia iii   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania (V.) braziliensis; Miniexon; Overexpression; SL RNA; Virulence

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLATE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HAMSTER; IN VIVO STUDY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MINIEXON GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; EXONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSFECTION; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

CRICETINAE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS; VIANNIA;

EID: 59249094361     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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