Lack of gender-specific antibody recognition of products from domains of a var gene implicated in pregnancy-associated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 4193-4196

  Jensen, Anja T R ^a   Zornig, Hanne D ^a   Buhmann, Caecilie ^a   Salanti, Ali ^a   Koram, Kwadwo A ^b   Riley, Eleanor M ^c   Theander, Thor G ^a   Hviid, Lars ^a   Staalsoe, Trine ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN SULFATE; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAND BINDING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED MALARIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VSA GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0037972306     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.7.4193-4196.2003     Document Type: Article

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