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Contribution of inflammasome genetics in Plasmodium vivax malaria.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2016
Santos Marina L S, Reis Edione Cristina, Bricher Pamela N, Sousa Tais N, Brito Cristiana F A, Lacerda Marcus V G, Fontes Cor J F, Carvalho Luzia H, Pontillo Alessandra
Abstract excerpt
Recent reports showed that, in mice, symptomatic Plasmodium infection triggers NLRP3/NLRP12-dependent inflammasome formation and caspase-1 activation in monocytes. In humans, few works demonstrated that inflammasome is activated in malaria. As Plasmodiumvivax is a potent inducer of inflammatory response we hypothesised that inflammasome genetics might affect P. vivax malaria clinical presentation. For this...
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