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Calcium signaling in a low calcium environment: how the intracellular malaria parasite solves the problem

Malaria parasites, Plasmodia, spend most of their asexual life cycle within red blood cells, where they proliferate and mature. The erythrocyte cytoplasm has very low [Ca(2+)] (<100 nM), which is very different from the extracellular environment encountered by most eukaryotic cells. The absence o...

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Autores principales: Gazarini, Marcos L., Thomas, Andrew P., Pozzan, Tullio, Garcia, Célia R.S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2172890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12682086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200212130