Oral putrescine restores virulence of ornithine decarboxylase-deficient Leishmania donovani in mice

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-111

  Olenyik, Tamara ^a   Gilroy, Caslin ^a   Ullman, Buddy ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difluoromethylornithine; Leishmania donovani; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Putrescine

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; EFLORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PUTRESCINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MACROPHAGE; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WILD TYPE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EFLORNITHINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHAGOSOMES; PUTRESCINE; VIRULENCE; WATER;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MUS;

EID: 79951676877     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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