 Apicomplexa
"Apicomplexa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A phylum of unicellular parasitic EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of complex apical organelles generally consisting of a conoid that aids in penetrating host cells, rhoptries that possibly secrete a proteolytic enzyme, and subpellicular microtubules that may be related to motility.
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D016782
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.075
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| Concept/Terms |
Sporozoea- Sporozoea
- Sporozoeas
- Sporozoa
- Sporozoas
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apicomplexa" by people in Profiles.
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Ivanova DL, Denton SL, Fettel KD, Sondgeroth KS, Munoz Gutierrez J, Bangoura B, Dunay IR, Gigley JP. Innate Lymphoid Cells in Protection, Pathology, and Adaptive Immunity During Apicomplexan Infection. Front Immunol. 2019; 10:196.
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Holmes MJ, Augusto LDS, Zhang M, Wek RC, Sullivan WJ. Translational Control in the Latency of Apicomplexan Parasites. Trends Parasitol. 2017 12; 33(12):947-960.
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Boe DM, Curtis BJ, Chen MM, Ippolito JA, Kovacs EJ. Extracellular traps and macrophages: new roles for the versatile phagocyte. J Leukoc Biol. 2015 Jun; 97(6):1023-35.
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Stock DW, Quattro JM, Whitt GS, Powers DA. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) gene duplication during chordate evolution: the cDNA sequence of the LDH of the tunicate Styela plicata. Mol Biol Evol. 1997 Dec; 14(12):1273-84.
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