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Using Fluorescent Proteins to Monitor Glycosome Dynamics in the African Trypanosome
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Axenic culture of African trypanosome bloodstream forms
1International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), PO Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya.
Parasitology Today (Personal Ed.)
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
In this article, Hiroyuki Hirumi and Kazuko Hirumi review recent technical developments of in vitro systems that support the growth of bloodstream forms of African trypanosomes in the absence of mammalian feeder layer cells, which were required in earlier methods.
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