Dissecting in vitro host cell infection by Plasmodium sporozoites using flow cytometry

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 218-224

  Prudêncio, Miguel ^a,b   Rodrigues, Cristina D ^a,b   Ataíde, Ricardo ^a   Mota, Maria M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEPATITIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 36948999417     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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