Epigenetics: A New Model for Intracellular Parasite-Host Cell Regulation

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 515-521

  Robert McMaster, W ^a   Morrison, Charlotte J ^a   Kobor, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Exosomes; Histone modification; Leishmania; NcRNA; Theileria; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MACROPHAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84975229570     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.04.002     Document Type: Review

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