Histopathologies, immunolocalization, and a glycan binding screen provide insights into plasmodium falciparum interactions with the human placenta

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hromatka Bethann S , B S ^a   Ngeleza, Sadiki ^b   Adibi, Jennifer J ^b   Niles, Richard K ^b   Tshefu, Antoinette K ^a   Fisher, Susan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kinshasa School of Public Health   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

Placenta; Pregnancy; Stroma; Syncytiotrophoblast; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CD36 ANTIGEN; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; GLYCAN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHORION VILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STROMA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD36; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; CHORIONIC VILLI; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84882266212     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.106195     Document Type: Article

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