Sentences with phrase «malaria invades the cells»

Understanding how malaria invades the cells could lead to a more effective vaccine.

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Immune cells in a malaria - transmitting mosquito sense the invading parasites and deploy an army of tiny messengers in response.

Malaria, which can be especially deadly for kids, develops when mosquito - borne protozoan parasites invade and then burst out of red blood cells to enter the bloodstream.

It opens a new avenue for research on vaccines to prevent malaria parasites invading red blood cells.

Our discovery that a specific variant of glycophorin invasion receptors can give substantial protection against severe malaria will hopefully inspire further research on exactly how Plasmodium falciparum invade red blood cells.

In its hybrid form, the protein somehow makes it more difficult for the malaria parasite to invade the blood cells.

When an infected mosquito bites, parasites in the mosquito's saliva first make their way to the victim's liver, where they silently grow and multiply into thousands of new parasites before invading red blood cells — the stage of the disease that triggers malaria's characteristic fevers, headaches, chills and sweats.

Malaria is a life - threatening disease caused by a parasite that invades one red blood cell after another.

Immunologists have suspected that P. falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite, uses several mechanisms to evade the human immune response and invade red blood cells.

As it invades a red blood cell, the malaria parasite takes part of the host cell's membrane to build a protective compartment.

«What makes it particularly interesting is that the region we can show is associated with protection happens to be right up against a set of genes we know are related to how malaria invades the red blood cell,» study author Dominic Kwiatkowski of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics told The Post.

The infection comes from the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite which invades the human host's bloodstream and liver cells.

A protein called P36 holds the key to how different species of malaria parasite invade liver cells.