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Blockade of TNF receptor 1 reduces disease severity but increases parasite transmission during Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi infection.
International journal for parasitology - 1 Jul 2008
Long Gráinne H, Chan Brian H K, Allen Judith E, Read Andrew F, Graham Andrea L
Abstract excerpt
Reducing host carriage of transmission-stage malaria parasites (gametocytes) is expected to decrease the population-wide burden of malaria. Some malaria disease severity is attributed to the induction of the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and lymphotoxin-alpha (LT-alpha), and we are interested in whether anti-malaria interventions which ameliorate the symptoms induced by those cytokines may have the...
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