Trichomonas vaginalis: Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and 17β-estradiol alter NTPDase activity and gene expression

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-195

  Rückert, Caroline ^a   Stuepp, Cristiane dos Santos ^a   Gottardi, Barbara ^a   Rosa, Jessica ^a   Cisilotto, Julia ^a   Borges, Fernanda Pires ^a   Rosemberg, Denis Broock ^b   Bogo, Mauricio Reis ^a   Tasca, Tiana ^b   De Carli, Geraldo Attilio ^a   Bonan, Carla Denise ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS); Nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase; Nucleotidases; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE DIPHOSPHOHYDROLASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE DIPHOSPHOHYDROLASE A; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE DIPHOSPHOHYDROLASE B; NUCLEOTIDE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TROPHOZOITE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 77952574732     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.01.029     Document Type: Article

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