Cell death in parasitic protozoa: Regulated or incidental?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-66

  Proto, William R ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^b   Mottram, Jeremy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; CASPASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HYPOTHESIS; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE; MACROAUTOPHAGY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEISHMANIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PLASMODIUM; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84871282941     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2929     Document Type: Review

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