Transcriptome analysis of mouse brain infected with toxoplasma gondii

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3609-3619

  Tanaka, Sachi ^a   Nishimura, Maki ^a   Ihara, Fumiaki ^a   Yamagishi, Junya ^b   Suzuki, Yutaka ^c   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84884386245     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00439-13     Document Type: Article

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