Especially in tropical and developing countries, the clinically relevant protozoa
Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease), Trypanosoma brucei (sleeping sickness) and …

Apoptosis is a normal component of the development and health of multicellular organisms.
However, apoptosis is now considered a prerogative of unicellular organisms, including the …

Programmed cell death (PCD) is a biochemical process that plays an essential role in the
development of multicellular organisms. However, accumulating evidence indicates that …

African trypanosomes and some related parasitic protozoa are affected by a form of
programmed cell death (PCD) that shows typical hallmarks of apoptosis. Although it has …

PCD in protozoan parasites has emerged as a fascinating field of parasite biology. This not
only relates to the underlying mechanisms and their evolutionary implications but also to the …

In multicellular organisms, cellular growth and development can be controlled by
programmed cell death (PCD), which is defined by a sequence of regulated events …

Leishmania and Trypanosoma belong to the Trypanosomatidae family and cause important
human infections such as leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness …

Trypanosomatids are unicellular protozoans of medical and economical relevance since
they are the etiologic agents of infectious diseases in humans as well as livestock. Whereas …

Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasitic protozoan, is the agent of Chagas' disease or American
trypanosomiasis, an endemic pathology in Latin America, affecting up to 18 million people …

Apoptosis-like programmed cell death (PCD) has recently been described in multiple taxa of
unicellular protists, including the protozoan parasites Plasmodium, Trypanosoma and …