Insights into the functional biology of schistosomes

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Walker, Anthony ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYL CYCLASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CALPAIN; CALPHOBINDIN II; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CD59 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; LIPOCORTIN 4; LIPOCORTIN 5; POLO LIKE KINASE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SM200; PROTEIN SM25; SJFZ9 PROTEIN; SMPLK1 KINASE; TETRASPANIN; TETRASPANIN 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TH2 CELL; WORM TEGUMENT; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALS; GENOME, HELMINTH; HUMANS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80054685766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-203     Document Type: Article

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