Heat-labile and heat-stimulable heme polymerase activities in Plasmodium berghei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 261-264

  Fitch, Coy D ^a   Chou, Albert C ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferriprotoporphyrin IX; Heme; Hemozoin; Malaria; Hematin

Indexed keywords

HEME; HEMOZOIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 0030602237     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02744-2     Document Type: Article

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