Plasmodium berghei: Routine production of pure gametocytes, extracellular gametes, zygotes, and ookinetes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-76

  Rodriguez M C ^a,b   Margos, G ^a,c   Compton, H ^a   Ku, M ^b   Lanz, H ^b   Rodriguez M H ^b   Sinden, R E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIMETHAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CENTRIFUGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALARIA; MICE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PYRIMETHAMINE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 0036591295     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00035-8     Document Type: Article

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