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  • noun biology Any cell (or unicellular organism) that does not have any flagella or cilia

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  • However, using a combination of isopycnic density (equilibrium) centrifugation and florescent particle sorting, the researchers, led by Dr Toni Aebischer of the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research at the University of Edinburgh, managed to purify the amastigote form of

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • McMahon-Pratt D (2005) CD4 (+) T cells play a dominant role in protection against new world leishmaniasis induced by vaccination with the p-4 amastigote antigen.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • While it is relatively simple to isolate and analyse the extracellular promastigotes it is notoriously difficult to separate the amastigote parasites from the host cells, making detailed proteomic analysis of the intracellular form of the parasites all but impossible.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • While it is relatively simple to isolate and analyse the extracellular promastigotes it is notoriously difficult to separate the amastigote parasites from the host cells, making detailed proteomic analysis of the intracellular form of the parasites all but impossible.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • While it is relatively simple to isolate and analyse the extracellular promastigotes it is notoriously difficult to separate the amastigote parasites from the host cells, making detailed proteomic analysis of the intracellular form of the parasites all but impossible.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • While it is relatively simple to isolate and analyse the extracellular promastigotes it is notoriously difficult to separate the amastigote parasites from the host cells, making detailed proteomic analysis of the intracellular form of the parasites all but impossible.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • However, using a combination of isopycnic density (equilibrium) centrifugation and florescent particle sorting, the researchers, led by Dr Toni Aebischer of the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research at the University of Edinburgh, managed to purify the amastigote form of

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

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