Experimental cerebral malaria pathogenesis--hemodynamics at the blood brain barrier.

Cerebral malaria claims the lives of over 600,000 African children every year. To better understand the pathogenesis of this devastating disease, we compared the cellular dynamics in the cortical microvasculature between two infection models, Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA) infected CBA/CaJ mice, whic...

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Main Authors: Adéla Nacer, Alexandru Movila, Fabien Sohet, Natasha M Girgis, Uma Mahesh Gundra, P'ng Loke, Richard Daneman, Ute Frevert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-12-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4256476?pdf=render