A role for microtubules in Plasmodium falciparum merozoite invasion

Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Bejon, P A ^a   Bannister, L H ^a   Fowler, R E ^a   Fookes, R E ^a   Webb, S E ^a,b   Wright, A ^a   Mitchell, G H ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b The Chinese University of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

colchicine; invasion; merozoites; microtubules; Plasmodium falciparum; tubulin

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLCHICINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031015702     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182096008050     Document Type: Article

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