Profiling the macrofilaricidal effects of flubendazole on adult female Brugia malayi using RNAseq

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 288-296

  O'Neill, Maeghan ^a   Ballesteros, Cristina ^a   Tritten, Lucienne ^a,d   Burkman, Erica ^b,c   Zaky, Weam I ^c   Xia, Jianguo ^a   Moorhead, Andrew ^b,c   Williams, Steven A ^c   Geary, Timothy G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benzimidazole; Cuticle; Filariasis; Flubendazole; Macrofilaricide; Reproduction; RNAseq

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; FLUBENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84990841507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2016.09.005     Document Type: Article

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