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Lambda-carrageenan treatment exacerbates the severity of cerebral malaria caused by Plasmodium berghei ANKA in BALB/c mice

BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need to develop and test novel compounds against malaria infection. Carrageenans, sulphated polysaccharides derived from seaweeds, have been previously shown to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum in vitro. However, they are inflammatory and alter the permeability of the blo...

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Autores principales: Recuenco, Frances C, Takano, Ryo, Chiba, Shiori, Sugi, Tatsuki, Takemae, Hitoshi, Murakoshi, Fumi, Ishiwa, Akiko, Inomata, Atsuko, Horimoto, Taisuke, Kobayashi, Yoshiyasu, Horiuchi, Noriyuki, Kato, Kentaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-487