Why it might be bad for brain cells to eat malaria parasites

In this issue, Adams et al. (2021. J. Exp. Med. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201266) show that red blood cells infected with strains of Plasmodium falciparum, which are commonly found in cerebral malaria patients, are specifically internalized by brain endothelial cells, perhaps contributing to the...

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Autor principal: Higgins, Matthew K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rockefeller University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33528504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202664
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spelling pubmed-78569162021-09-01 Why it might be bad for brain cells to eat malaria parasites Higgins, Matthew K. J Exp Med Insights In this issue, Adams et al. (2021. J. Exp. Med. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20201266) show that red blood cells infected with strains of Plasmodium falciparum, which are commonly found in cerebral malaria patients, are specifically internalized by brain endothelial cells, perhaps contributing to the symptoms of the disease. Rockefeller University Press 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7856916/ /pubmed/33528504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202664 Text en © 2021 Higgins http://www.rupress.org/terms/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms/). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 International license, as described at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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