Sequestration and tissue accumulation of human malaria parasites: Can we learn anything from rodent models of malaria?

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Franke Fayard, Blandine ^a   Fonager, Jannik ^a   Braks, Anneke ^a   Khan, Shahid M ^a   Janse, Chris J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD36 ANTIGEN; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; RODENT; SCHIZONT; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; RODENTIA;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; RODENTIA;

EID: 78149348170     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001032     Document Type: Review

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