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Malarial Pigment Hemozoin and the Innate Inflammatory Response
Malaria is a deadly infectious disease caused by the intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite Plasmodium. The four species of Plasmodium known to affect humans all produce an inorganic crystal called hemozoin (HZ) during the heme detoxification process. HZ is released from the food vacuole into circulat...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24550911 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00025 |