A transcriptomic study on the pepsin-activated infective larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-50

  Chang, Shih Hsin ^a   Tang, Petrus ^a,b   Wang, Lian Chen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Eosinophilic meningitis; Eosinophilic meningoencephalitis; Expressed sequence tags; Infective larvae

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE PROTEASE 1; CYSTEINE PROTEASE 2; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPSIN A; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LARVAL STAGE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPSIN A; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 79959754724     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: 18729428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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