Anti-schistosomal intervention targets identified by lifecycle transcriptomic analyses

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Fitzpatrick, Jennifer M ^a   Peak, Emily ^b   Perally, Samirah ^b   Chalmers, Iain W ^b   Barrett, John ^b   Yoshino, Timothy P ^c   Ivens, Alasdair C ^d   Hoffmann, Karl F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Fios Genomics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LEISHMANOLYSIN; NETRIN; PEROXIDASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TETRASPANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYHELMINTH; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 73449104210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000543     Document Type: Article

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