Signal transduction induced in Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic trypomastigotes during the invasion of mammalian cells
Penetration of Trypanosoma cruzi into mammalian cells depends on the activation of the parasite's protein tyrosine kinase and on the increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration. We used metacyclic trypomastigotes, the T. cruzi developmental forms that initiate infection in mammalian hosts, to inve...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2000-03-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2000000300003 |