Development and host cell modifications of Plasmodium falciparum blood stages in four dimensions

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Grüring, Christof ^a   Heiber, Arlett ^a   Kruse, Florian ^a   Ungefehr, Johanna ^a   Gilberger, Tim Wolf ^a,b   Spielmann, Tobias ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYTOCHALASIN D; DIACETYL OXIME; JASPAMIDE; MYOSIN; PACLITAXEL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SCHIZONT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TROPHOZOITE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 79251565514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1169     Document Type: Article

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