Proteases in blood-feeding nematodes and their potential as vaccine candidates

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 712, Issue , 2011, Pages 155-176

  Knox, David ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CATHEPSIN B; CONTORTIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GLYCAN; H GAL GP PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 22; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEGUMAIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; VACCINE;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION PREVENTION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PARASITISM; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VACCINE PRODUCTION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAEMONCHUS; IMMUNOLOGY; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; VACCINES;

EID: 80053296202     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8414-2_10     Document Type: Article

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