Programmed cell death in unicellular parasites: A prerequisite for sustained infection?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 477-483

  Van Zandbergen, Ger ^a   Lüder, Carsten G K ^b   Heussler, Volker ^c   Duszenko, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 12; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 8; CASPASE; METACASPASE; PARACASPASE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOON; TOXOPLASMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EUKARYOTA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77956882084     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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