Neuropeptides kill African trypanosomes by targeting intracellular compartments and inducing autophagic-like cell death

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 406-416

  Delgado, M ^a   Anderson, P ^a   Garcia Salcedo, J A ^a   Caro, M ^a   Gonzalez Rey, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; NEUROPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE[10-28];

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 60849108318     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2008.161     Document Type: Article

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