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Azathioprine favourably influences the course of malaria

BACKGROUND: Azathioprine triggers suicidal erythrocyte death or eryptosis, characterized by cell shrinkage and exposure of phosphatidylserine at the erythrocyte surface. Eryptosis may accelerate the clearance of Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes. The present study thus explored whether azathioprine i...

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Autores principales: Bobbala, Diwakar, Koka, Saisudha, Geiger, Corinna, Föller, Michael, Huber, Stephan M, Lang, Florian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-102