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Sialic acid: a sweet swing between mammalian host and Trypanosoma cruzi
Commonly found at the outermost ends of complex carbohydrates in extracellular medium or on outer cell membranes, sialic acids play important roles in a myriad of biological processes. Mammals synthesize sialic acid through a complex pathway, but Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas’ disease, evol...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515882/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230438 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2012.00356 |