Plasmodium falciparum parasites expressing pregnancy-specific variant surface antigens adhere strongly to the choriocarcinoma cell line BeWo

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3035-3038

  Haase, Rikke N ^a   Megnekou, Rosette ^a   Lundquist, Maja ^a   Ofori, Michael F ^a,b   Hviid, Lars ^a   Staalsoe, Trine ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC VARIANT SURFACE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CHO CELL; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHO CELLS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CRICETINAE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646358466     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.5.3035-3038.2006     Document Type: Article

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