Ascaris suum: RNAi mediated silencing of enolase gene expression in infective larvae

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-146

  Chen, Ning ^a,e   Xu, Min Jun ^a   Nisbet, Alasdair J ^c   Huang, Cui Qin ^d   Lin, Rui Qing ^a   Yuan, Zi Guo ^a   Song, Hui Qun ^a   Zhu, Xing Quan ^b,f  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d LONGYAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Shenzhen Institute for Drug Control   (China)

^f YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ascaris suum; Development; Enolase; Gene expression; Infective larvae; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENOLASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LARVA; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS SUUM; MUS; NEMATODA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78650528802     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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