Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite-infected peripheral blood mononuclear cells are enriched in mouse lungs and liver

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 160-164

  Unno, Akihiro ^a,b   Kachi, Seira ^a   Batanova, Tatiana A ^a   Ohno, Tamio ^b   Elhawary, Nagwa ^a,c   Kitoh, Katsuya ^a   Takashima, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Circulation; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs); Real time quantitative PCR (qRT PCR); Tachyzoite; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION RATE; INOCULATION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEART VENTRICLES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VERO CELLS;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84876332081     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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