Sporozoites of Plasmodium yoelii infect mice with targeted deletions in ICAM-1 and ICAM-2 or complement components C3 and C4

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 263-266

  Sultan, Ali A ^a   Briones, Marcelo R S ^b   Gerwin, Nicole ^c   Carroll, Michael C ^d   Nussenzweig, Victor ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

A domain; Malaria; RT PCR; Sporozoites

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 2; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; EIMERIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE; TOXOPLASMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C4; DNA PRIMERS; GENE TARGETING; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LIVER; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EIMERIA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0030871599     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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