Chronicle of a death foretold: Plasmodium liver stage parasites decide on the fate of the host cell

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-130

  Graewe, Stefanie ^a   Stanway, Rebecca R ^b   Rennenberg, Annika ^c   Heussler, Volker T ^b  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Astra GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exo erythrocytic development; Malaria; Merosome; Parasite host interaction; Plasmodium liver stage; Sporozoite

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ANOPHELES; APOPTOSIS; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; MALARIA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; SCHIZONT; SPOROZOITE; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 83355163604     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00297.x     Document Type: Review

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