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Angiotensin II Moderately Decreases Plasmodium Infection and Experimental Cerebral Malaria in Mice

Angiotensin II, a peptide hormone that regulates blood pressure, has been proposed as a protective factor against cerebral malaria based on a genetic analysis. In vitro studies have documented an inhibitory effect of angiotensin II on Plasmodium growth, while studies using chemical inhibitors of ang...

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Autores principales: Gallego-Delgado, Julio, Baravian, Charlotte, Edagha, Innocent, Ty, Maureen C., Ruiz-Ortega, Marta, Xu, Wenyue, Rodriguez, Ana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138191