«Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in
human red blood cell receptors: First study to identify protective effect of glycophorin gene rearrangements on malaria.»
Not exact matches
«Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites have evolved several key - like molecules to enter into
human red blood cells through different door - like host
receptors.
A study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Wellcome Trust Centre for
Human Genetics and their collaborators has identified a genetic rearrangement of
red blood cell glycophorin
receptors that confers a 40 per cent reduced risk from severe malaria.
Plasmodium parasites infect
human red blood cells and gain entry via
receptors on the
cell surface.