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Real-time cholesterol sorting in Plasmodium falciparum-erythrocytes as revealed by 3D label-free imaging
Cholesterol, a necessary component of animal cell membranes, is also needed by the lethal human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Because P. falciparum lacks a cholesterol synthesis pathway and malaria patients have low blood cholesterol, we speculated that it scavenges cholesterol from them i...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32066816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59552-9 |