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Toll-like receptor 9 mediates innate immune activation by the malaria pigment hemozoin
Malaria parasites within red blood cells digest host hemoglobin into a hydrophobic heme polymer, known as hemozoin (HZ), which is subsequently released into the blood stream and then captured by and concentrated in the reticulo-endothelial system. Accumulating evidence suggests that HZ is immunologi...
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The Rockefeller University Press
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20041836 |