Molecular approaches to parasitology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boothroyd, John C., Komuniecki, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley-Liss, [1995]
Series:MBL lectures in biology ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Host-parasite interaction
  • Systematics: questions and approaches for the molecular parasitologist
  • Molecular mechanisms of invasion by Ancylostoma hookworms
  • Antigenic variation in Giardia lamblia
  • Lymphoproliferation caused by Theileria parva and Theileria annulata
  • Biological functions of nematode surfaces
  • Filariasis: the role of chitinase in larval development and transmission
  • Metabolism and drug action
  • Invermectin
  • Aerobic-anaerobic transitions in energy metabolism during the development of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum
  • Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase in trypanosomatids: a rational target for antiparasitic chemotherapy
  • Genomes
  • Replication of kinetoplast DNA
  • Exploring the organelle genomes of malaria parasites
  • Double-stranded RNA genome of giardiavirus
  • Chromatin diminution in nematode development: an alternative means of gene regulation
  • Gene expression and genetics
  • Toxoplasma as a paradigm for the use of genetics in the study of protozoan parasites
  • Drug resistance and transfection in Plasmodium
  • RNA editing: an overview, status report and personal perspective
  • Transcription and RNA processing in Trypanosoma brucei
  • Gene replacements and genetics in Trypanosoma cruzi
  • Trans-splicing specificity and polycistronic transcription units in Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Trans-splicing in flatworms
  • Ascaris and Caenorhabditis: complementary organisms for studying germline determination
  • Cell biology
  • Toxoplasma gondii: cell biology update
  • What we talk about when we talk about cell invasion: reflections on a trypanosome system
  • Golgi complex in Plasmodium falciparum: its implications for a tubovesicular network in the infected-erythrocyte cytoplasm and secretory export of parasite proteins
  • Cell biology of trichomonads: protein targeting to the hydrogenosome
  • Import of proteins into the glycosomes of Trypanosoma brucei
  • Immune response
  • Regulation of cell-mediated immunity by parasites: the ups and downs of an important host adaptation
  • Cytokine control of the macrophage parasites Leishmania and Trypanosoma cruzi
  • Murine leishmaniasis and the regulation of CD4⁺ cell development
  • Cytokine control of protective immunity against nematode infections
  • Immunobiology of trypanosomiasis: a revisionist view
  • Immunology of schistosomiasis
  • Immune responses in lymphatic-dwelling filarial infections
  • Participants in the biology of parasitism course