Quantitative imaging of human red blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 953-960

  Esposito, Alessandro ^a,c   Choimet, Jean Baptiste ^a   Skepper, Jeremy N ^a   Mauritz, Jakob M A ^a   Lew, Virgilio L ^a   Kaminski, Clemens F ^a,b   Tiffert, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c HUTCHISON MRC RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE;

ALGORITHM; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77955650103     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.065     Document Type: Article

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