Article
Ultrastructural analysis of fresh Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes and their cytoadherence to human leukocytes.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 May 1992
Ruangjirachuporn W, Afzelius B A, Helmby H, Hill A V, Greenwood B M, Carlson J, Berzins K, Perlmann P, Wahlgren M
Abstract excerpt
Sixty fresh Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from Gambian children with mild or cerebral malaria were investigated by transmission electron microscopy for the expression of knob-like protrusions (K+) on the surface of the infected erythrocytes. More than six-hundred infected erythrocytes w...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Aggregation
- Child
- Erythrocytes
- Humans
- Leukocytes
- Malaria, Cerebral
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Melanoma
- Microscopy, Electron
- Phagocytosis
- Phenotype
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Tumor Cells, Cultured