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Transcription profiling of human endothelial cells treated with Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes and/or TNF-alpha

ABSTRACT: Sensitisation of endothelium to TNFalpha induced by cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum infected red blood cells

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Celine Carret

PROVIDER: E-SGRP-3 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Altered phenotype and gene transcription in endothelial cells, induced by Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells: pathogenic or protective?

Chakravorty Srabasti J SJ Carret Celine C Nash Gerard B GB Ivens Al A Szestak Tadge T Craig Alister G AG

International journal for parasitology 20070220 8-9

Severe malaria is associated with sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (PRBC) in the microvasculature and elevation of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and TNF. In vitro co-culture of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), with either PRBC or uninfected RBC, required the presence of low level TNF (5pg/ml) for significant up-regulation of ICAM-1, which may contribute to increased cytoadhesion in vivo. These effects were independent of P. falciparum er ...[more]

PMID: 17383656

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Transcription profiling of human endothelial cells treated with Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes and/or TNF-alpha

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Altered phenotype and gene transcription in endothelial cells, induced by Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells: pathogenic or protective?

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