Membrane knobs of unfixed Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes: New findings as revealed by atomic force microscopy and surface potential spectroscopy

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 339-343

  Aikawa, Masamichi ^a   Kamanura, Kiyoshi ^b   Shiraishi, Soshi ^b   Matsumoto, Yoshitugu ^c   Arwati, Henry ^c   Torii, Motomi ^d   Ito, Yoshihiro ^e   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^f   Tandler, Bernard ^g  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030561014     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0122     Document Type: Article

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