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Heme and blood-feeding parasites: friends or foes?

Hemoparasites, like malaria and schistosomes, are constantly faced with the challenges of storing and detoxifying large quantities of heme, released from their catabolism of host erythrocytes. Heme is an essential prosthetic group that forms the reactive core of numerous hemoproteins with diverse bi...

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Autores principales: Toh, Shu Qin, Glanfield, Amber, Gobert, Geoffrey N, Jones, Malcolm K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2999593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21087517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-108