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Alpha-tocopherol transfer protein disruption confers resistance to malarial infection in mice

BACKGROUND: Various factors impact the severity of malaria, including the nutritional status of the host. Vitamin E, an intra and extracellular anti-oxidant, is one such nutrient whose absence was shown previously to negatively affect Plasmodium development. However, mechanisms of this Plasmodium in...

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Autores principales: Herbas, Maria S, Ueta, Yoshiko Y, Ichikawa, Chie, Chiba, Mayumi, Ishibashi, Kana, Shichiri, Mototada, Fukumoto, Shinya, Yokoyama, Naoaki, Takeya, Motohiro, Xuan, Xuenan, Arai, Hiroyuki, Suzuki, Hiroshi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20403155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-101