Transformation of the rodent malaria parasite plasmodium chabaudi

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-561

  Spence, Philip J ^a   Cunningham, Deirdre ^a   Jarra, William ^a   Lawton, Jennifer ^a   Langhorne, Jean ^a   Thompson, Joanne ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CRYOPRESERVATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CRYOPRESERVATION; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79960035973     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.313     Document Type: Article

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