Distinct properties of the egress-related osmiophilic bodies in male and female gametocytes of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 355-368

  Olivieri, Anna ^a   Bertuccini, Lucia ^a   Deligianni, Elena ^b   Franke Fayard, Blandine ^c   Currà, Chiara ^a   Siden Kiamos, Inga ^b   Hanssen, Eric ^d   Grasso, Felicia ^a   Superti, Fabiana ^a   Pace, Tomasino ^a   Fratini, Federica ^a   Janse, Chris J ^c   Ponzi, Marta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PBG377; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; OSMIOPHILIC BODY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84925057591     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12370     Document Type: Article

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