The Survival Strategies of Malaria Parasite in the Red Blood Cell and Host Cell Polymorphisms | Zendy

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The Survival Strategies of Malaria Parasite in the Red Blood Cell and Host Cell Polymorphisms

Author(s) -

Gunanidhi Dhangadamajhi,

Shantanu Kumar Kar,

Manoranjan Ranjit‬

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

malaria research and treatment

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.726

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2090-8075

pISSN - 2044-4362

DOI - 10.4061/2010/973094

Subject(s) - malaria , parasite hosting , host (biology) , biology , gene , plasmodium (life cycle) , cell , hemoglobin , evolutionary biology , immunology , genetics , biochemistry , computer science , world wide web

Parasite growth within the erythrocyte causes dramatic alterations of host cell which on one hand facilitates nutrients acquisition from extracellular environment and on other hand contributes to the symptoms of severe malaria. The current paper focuses on interactions between the Plasmodium parasite and its metabolically highly reduced host cell, the natural selection of numerous polymorphisms in the genes encoding hemoglobin and other erythrocyte proteins

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