Cellular analysis of host cell infection by different developmental stages of Trypanosoma cruzi

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-336

  Florencio Martínez, Luis ^a,b   Márquez Dueñas, Claudia ^a   Ballesteros Rodea, Gilberto ^a,c   Martínez Calvillo, Santiago ^b   Manning Cela, Rebeca ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amastigotes; Epimastigotes; Green fluorescent protein; Infectivity; Parasites; Transfection; Trypomastigotes

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN 583; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; KINETOPLASTID LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77956248610     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.04.015     Document Type: Article

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