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Iron, anemia and hepcidin in malaria
Malaria and iron have a complex but important relationship. Plasmodium proliferation requires iron, both during the clinically silent liver stage of growth and in the disease-associated phase of erythrocyte infection. Precisely how the protozoan acquires its iron from its mammalian host remains uncl...
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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/PMC4039013/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910614 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2014.00125 |