Caspase dependent programmed cell death in developing embryos: A potential target for therapeutic intervention against pathogenic nematodes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Mohapatra, Alok Das ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Satapathy, Ashok Kumar ^b   Ravindran, Balachandran ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CHLOROQUINE; CURCUMIN; CYTOCHROME C; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRIMAQUINE; PROTEIN CED 3; PROTEIN CED 4; PROTEIN CED 9; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CED 4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NAPHTHOQUINONE; PLUMBAGIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FILARIASIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SETARIA DIGITATA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SETARIA;

ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASPASES; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLOROQUINE; CURCUMIN; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PRIMAQUINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SETARIA NEMATODE;

EID: 80053447286     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001306     Document Type: Article

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