Light depolarization measurements in malaria: A new job for an old friend

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 437-445

  Rebelo, Maria ^a   Tempera, Carolina ^a   Bispo, Claudia ^b   Andrade, Claudia ^b   Gardner, Rui ^b   Shapiro, Howard M ^c   Hänscheid, Thomas ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c Center for Microbial Cytometry   (United States)

Author keywords

Depolarized side scatter; Flow cytometry; Hemozoin; Light depolarization; Malaria; Polarization

Indexed keywords

HEMOPROTEIN; HEMOZOIN;

ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE; LIGHT; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIGHT; MALARIA;

EID: 84928183386     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22659     Document Type: Article

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