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Real-time measurement of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocyte cytoadhesion with a quartz crystal microbalance

BACKGROUND: An important virulence mechanism of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is cytoadhesion, the binding of infected erythrocytes to endothelial cells in the second half of asexual blood stage development. Conventional methods to investigate adhesion of infected erythrocytes are mostl...

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Autores principales: Kömpf, Daniela, Held, Jana, Müller, Stefani F., Drechsel, Hartmut R., Tschan, Serena C., Northoff, Hinnak, Mordmüller, Benjamin, Gehring, Frank K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27296675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1374-7