High resolution 3D perspective of Plasmodium biology: Advancing into a new era

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 548-554

  Eshar, Shiri ^a   Dahan Pasternak, Noa ^a   Weiner, Allon ^b   Dzikowski, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

DISSECTION; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 82855178738     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.08.002     Document Type: Review

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