Signal transduction regulates schistosome reproductive biology

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 422-428

  LoVerde, Philip T ^a,b   Andrade, Luiza F ^c   Oliveira, Guilherme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBIMYCIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EGG PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SCHISTOSOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 68149150062     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.06.005     Document Type: Review

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