Identification of Toxoplasma gondii Genes Responsive to the Host Immune Response during In Vivo Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Skariah, Sini ^a   Mordue, Dana G ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; STRESS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMA GONDII GENE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OOCYSTS; PERITONEUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84867340225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046621     Document Type: Article

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