Requirements for maximal enrichment of viable intraerythrocytic plasmodium falciparum rings by saponin hemolysis

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 233, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1359-1367

  Orjih, Augustine U ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Plasmodiun falciparum; Rings; Viable

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ICE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE LIPID; SAPONIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CENTRIFUGATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SAPONINS;

EID: 58249093041     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0804-RM-129     Document Type: Article

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