An in vitro microassay to assess the ability of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to bind to the human syncytiotrophoblast

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 401-407

  Maubert, Bertrand ^a   Riche, Dominique ^a   Deloron, Philippe ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Cytoadherence; Human; Placenta; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0032411717     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1998.tb00425.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Walter PR, Garin Y, Blot P : Placental pathologic changes in malaria. Am J Pathol 1982; 109:330-342.
2. Brabin BJ: The risk and severity of malaria in pregnant women. Applied Field Research in Malaria Reports NO.1 TDR/FIELDMAL/1. Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, 1991, pp 33.
3. Sherman IE, Crandall IW, Guthrie N, Land KM: The sticky secrets of sequestration. Parasitol Today 1995; 11:378-384.
4. Maubert B, Guilbert LJ, Deloron P : Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocyte sequestration in the human placenta: Cytoadherence mechanisms involving intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and chondroitin-4-sulfate as syncytiotrophoblast receptors. Infect Immun 1997; 65:1251-1257.
5. Contractor SF, Sooranna SR: Trophoblast cell culture as a model for studying placental function. In The human placenta: A guide for clinicians and scientists, CWG Redman, ILS Sargent, PM Starkey (eds), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK, 1993, pp 504-526.
6. Yui J, Garcia-Lloret M, Brown AJ, Berdan RC, Morrish DW, Wegmann TG, Guilbert LJ : Functional, long-term cultures of human term trophoblasts purified by column-elimination of CD9 expressing cells. Placenta 1994; 15:231-246.
7. Hasler T, Albrecht GR, Vanschravendijk MR, Aguiar JC, Morehead KE, Pasloske BL, Ma C, Barnwell JW, Greenwood B, Howard RJ: An improved microassay for Plasmodium falciparum cytoadherence using stable transformants of Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing CD36 or intercellular adhesion molecule-1. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1993; 48:332-347.
8. Trager W, Jensen JB. Human malaria parasites in continuous culture. Science 1976; 193:673-675.
9. Marsh K, Marsh VM, Brown J, Whittle HC, Greenwood BM: Plasmodium falciparum: The behavior of clinical isolates in an in vitro model of infected red blood cell sequestration. Exp Parasitol 1988; 65:202-208.
10. Ringwald P, Dubois B, Lebras J, Deloron P: Plasmodium falciparum: In vitro models of cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes and an analysis with 8 different isolates on different target cells. Exp Parasitol 1993; 76:442-446.
11. Rogerson SJ, Chaiyaroj SC, Ng K, Reeder JC, Brown GV: Chondroitin sulfate A is a cell surface receptor for Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. J Exp Med 1995; 182:15-20.
12. Robert C, Pouvelle B, Meyer P, Muanza K, Fujtoka H, Aikawa M, Scherf A, Gysin J: Chondroitin-4-sulphate (proteoglycan), a receptor for Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocyte adherence on brain microvascular endothelial cells. Res Immunol 1995; 146:383-393.
13. Fried M, Duffy PE: Adherence of Plasmodium falciparum to chondroitin sulfate A in the human placenta. Science 1996; 272:1502-1504.
14. Cooke BM, Berendt AR, Craig AG, Macgregor J, Newbold CI, Nash GB: Rolling and stationary cytoadhesion of red blood cells parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum: Separate roles for ICAM-1, CD36 and thrombospondin. Br J Haematol 1994; 87:162-170.