Targeting essential pathways in trypanosomatids gives insights into protozoan mechanisms of cell death

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Smirlis, Despina ^a   Duszenko, Michael ^b   Ruiz, Antonio Jiménez ^c   Scoulica, Effie ^d   Bastien, Patrick ^e   Fasel, Nicolas ^f   Soteriadou, Ketty ^a  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CASPASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA;

METAZOA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 78349249826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-107     Document Type: Review

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