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Cell-Passage Activity Is Required for the Malarial Parasite to Cross the Liver Sinusoidal Cell Layer

Liver infection is an obligatory step in malarial transmission, but it remains unclear how the sporozoites gain access to the hepatocytes, which are separated from the circulatory system by the liver sinusoidal cell layer. We found that a novel microneme protein, named sporozoite microneme protein e...

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Autores principales: Ishino, Tomoko, Yano, Kazuhiko, Chinzei, Yasuo, Yuda, Masao
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC314464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14737184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020004