Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Novel Glutamate-Gated Chloride Channel Subunits from Schistosoma mansoni

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Dufour, Vanessa ^a   Beech, Robin N ^a   Wever, Claudia ^b   Dent, Joseph A ^b   Geary, Timothy G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE LOOP LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; IVERMECTIN; MECLONAZEPAM; GLUTAMATE-GATED CHLORIDE CHANNELS; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOLTAGE CLAMP; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84883426869     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003586     Document Type: Article

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