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Plasmodium

 
 
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Disease relevance of Plasmodium

  • The mRNA for the Duffy blood group antigen, the erythrocyte receptor for the Plasmodium vivax malaria parasite, has recently been cloned and shown to encode a widely expressed chemokine receptor [1].
  • A 12 amino-acid synthetic peptide (NANP)3 comprising the immunodominant epitope of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein was conjugated to tetanus toxoid (TT), adjuvanted with aluminium hydroxide, and administered intramuscularly in three doses at monthly intervals to 35 healthy males as a malaria vaccine [2].
  • A recombinant complementary DNA clone from Plasmodium knowlesi makes a beta-lactamase fusion polypeptide in Escherichia coli that reacts with a monoclonal antibody to a Plasmodium surface antigen [3].
  • The activity of serum TNF-alpha was considerably increased in CBA/Ca mice with cerebral malaria but not in Plasmodium berghei-infected mice that did not develop this complication [4].
  • Gametocyte infectivity and oocyst development of the avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium gallinaceum, can be reduced or eliminated in mosquitoes by immunizing the chickens on which the mosquitoes feed with infected red blood cells that have been treated with formalin or x-rays [5].
 

High impact information on Plasmodium

 

Chemical compound and disease context of Plasmodium

 

Biological context of Plasmodium

 

Anatomical context of Plasmodium

 

Associations of Plasmodium with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Plasmodium

  • We have identified a homologue of ERD2 in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (PfERD2) [31].
  • Two murine loci on chromosomes 8 (Pchr/Char2) and 9 (Char1) have previously been mapped in F(2) crosses, and play an important role in regulating blood parasitemia and survival to infection with Plasmodium chabaudi [32].
  • Recently, members of the toll-like receptor (TLR) family have been shown to be involved in recognition of the etiologic organism Plasmodium falciparum: The glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor induces signaling in host cells via TLR-2 and -4, whereas hemozoin-induced immune activation involves TLR-9 [33].
  • Binding of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to the membrane-bound form of Fractalkine/CX3CL1 [34].
  • The Duffy protein is a receptor for the Plasmodium vivax erythrocyte-binding protein and is also a receptor for various chemokines (thus renamed Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines [DARC]) [35].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Plasmodium

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