Plasmodium falciparum: Chemically defined medium for continuous intraerythrocytic growth using lipids and recombinant albumin

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Asahi, Hiroko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemically defined culture medium; Growth promoting factor; Nonesterified fatty acids; Phospholipids; Protozoan Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; FATTY ACID; LIPID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; RECOMBINANT ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; ERYTHROCYTES; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HUMANS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

BOVINAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 57049139865     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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