Experimental infection of immunomodulated NOD/LtSz-SCID mice as a new model for Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic stages

Parasitology Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-105

  Sabater, Alicia Moreno ^a   Moreno, Marta ^a   Moreno, Francisco Javier ^a   Eguiluz, Cesar ^a   Van Rooijen, Nico ^b   Benito, Agustin ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MACROPHAGES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, NUDE; MICE, SCID; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 13644269362     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1249-7     Document Type: Article

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