A Microscale Human Liver Platform that Supports the Hepatic Stages of Plasmodium falciparum and vivax

The Plasmodium liver stage is an attractive target for the development of antimalarial drugs and vaccines, as it provides an opportunity to interrupt the life cycle of the parasite at a critical early stage. However, targeting the liver stage has been difficult. Undoubtedly, a major barrier has been...

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Main Authors: March-Riera, Sandra (Contributor), Ng, Shengyong (Contributor), Velmurugan, Soundarapandian (Author), Galstian, Ani (Contributor), Shan, Jing (Contributor), Logan, David J. (Author), Carpenter, Anne E. (Author), Thomas, David (Author), Sim, B. Kim Lee (Author), Mota, Maria M. (Author), Hoffman, Stephen L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Bhatia, Sangeeta N. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2014-04-11T18:05:43Z.
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