Transport proteins as "drug targets" in Plasmodium falciparum: New perspectives in the treatment of malaria;Transportproteiner som drug-targets hos Plasmodium falciparum: Nye perspektiver i behandlingen af malaria

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 168, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1314-1317

  Ellekvist, Peter ^a,b   Colding, Lektor Hanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ARTEMISIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CALCIUM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CYTOPLASM; DRUG TARGETING; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEXOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CALCIUM; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 33645522897     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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