Contractile protein system in the asexual stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 451-457

  Webb, S E ^a,c   Fowler, R E ^a   O'shaughnessy, C ^a,d   Pinder, J C ^b   Dluzewski, A R ^b   Gratzer, W B ^b   Bannister, L H ^a   Mitchell, G H ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^d ELAN PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

actin; contractile system; myosin; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTISERUM; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029906380     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000076915     Document Type: Article

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