Transduction of Schistosoma japonicum schistosomules with vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein pseudotyped murine leukemia retrovirus and expression of reporter human telomerase reverse transcriptase in the transgenic schistosomes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-116

  Yang, Shenghui ^a,d   Brindley, Paul J ^b   Zeng, Qingren ^a   Li, Yuesheng ^a,c   Zhou, Jun ^e   Liu, Yan ^a,f   Liu, Biyuan ^a,f   Cai, Liting ^a   Zeng, Tiebing ^a,f   Wei, Qi ^a   Lan, Lingmei ^a   McManus, Donald P ^c  

^a Central South University   (China)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSVG); Murine leukemia virus; Pantropic retrovirus; Schistosoma japonicum; Telomerase; Transgene

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINE; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; TELOMERASE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 77957317084     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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