Early gametocytes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum specifically remodel the adhesive properties of infected erythrocyte surface

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 647-659

  Tibúrcio, Marta ^a   Silvestrini, Francesco ^a   Bertuccini, Lucia ^a   Sander, Adam Frederik ^b,c   Turner, Louise ^b,c   Lavstsen, Thomas ^b,c   Alano, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL ADHESION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOZOITE; VAR GENE; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CELL ADHESION; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84874989965     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12062     Document Type: Article

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