Characterisation of the native lipid moiety of echinococcus granulosus antigen B

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Obal, Gonzalo ^a,b   Ramos, Ana Lía ^a   Silva, Valeria ^a   Lima, Analía ^b   Batthyany, Carlos ^b   Bessio, María Inés ^c   Ferreira, Fernando ^c   Salinas, Gustavo ^a   Ferreira, Ana María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS ANTIGEN B; LIGAND; LIPOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; STEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN B, ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; LIPID;

ARTICLE; CYST FLUID; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; LIPIDS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 84863676019     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001642     Document Type: Article

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