Plasmodium sporozoite molecular cell biology

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 20, Issue , 2004, Pages 29-59

  Kappe, Stefan H I ^a   Buscaglia, Carlos A ^b   Nussenzweig, Victor ^b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Cell invasion; Gliding motility; Hepatocyte; Malaria

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; THROMBOSPONDIN;

APICOPLAST; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIVER CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE MIGRATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CULICIDAE; HEPATOCYTES; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPOROZOITES;

APICOMPLEXA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8444221999     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.20.011603.150935     Document Type: Review

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