Sentences with phrase «called vacuoles»

When Toxoplasma infects a mammalian cell, it uses part of the cell's membrane to wrap itself in a little sac, called a vacuole.

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Genetically disabling one of those pore - forming proteins, called PPLP2, allows the malaria parasites to break free of the vacuole but keeps them firmly sealed inside the red blood cell, Glushakova and colleagues discovered.

The first real clue was the drug's ability to concentrate in the food vacuole — or so - called acid stomach — of the malaria parasite.

This is possible because quinolines are active inside a cell organelle called the digestive vacuole; resistance occurs when the parasite finds ways of keeping the drug out of the vacuole.