Intravital observation of Plasmodium berghei sporozoite infection of the liver.
Plasmodium sporozoite invasion of liver cells has been an extremely elusive event to study. In the prevailing model, sporozoites enter the liver by passing through Kupffer cells, but this model was based solely on incidental observations in fixed specimens and on biochemical and physiological data....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1135295?pdf=render |