Low anticoagulant heparin disrupts Plasmodium falciparum rosettes in fresh clinical isolates

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 390-396

  Leitgeb, Anna M ^b   Blomqvist, Karin ^a   Cho Ngwa, Fidelis ^c   Samje, Moses ^c   Nde, Peter ^c   Titanji, Vincent ^c   Wahlgren, Mats ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Dilafor AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DFX 232; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HEPARAN SULFATE; HEPARIN; SEVUPARIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROSETTE FORMATION;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTES; HEPARIN; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ROSETTE FORMATION;

EID: 79955653245     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0256     Document Type: Article

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