Stage-specific pathways of Leishmania infantum chagasi entry and phagosome maturation in macrophages.

The life stages of Leishmania spp. include the infectious promastigote and the replicative intracellular amastigote. Each stage is phagocytosed by macrophages during the parasite life cycle. We previously showed that caveolae, a subset of cholesterol-rich membrane lipid rafts, facilitate uptake and...

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Main Authors: Nilda E Rodríguez, Upasna Gaur Dixit, Lee-Ann H Allen, Mary E Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084250?pdf=render