Bloodstream form pre-adaptation to the tsetse fly in Trypanosoma brucei

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Rico, Eva ^a   Rojas, Federico ^a   Mony, Binny M ^a   Szoor, Balazs ^a   MacGregor, Paula ^a   Matthews, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Drug screening; Gene expression; Signaling; Slender; Stumpy; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOSSINIDAE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG-SCREENING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNALING; SLENDER; STUMPY; TRYPANOSOMA;

DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG-SCREENING; GENE EXPRESSION; SIGNALING; SLENDER; STUMPY; TRYPANOSOMA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 84894722803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00078     Document Type: Review

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