A rapid murine coma and behavior scale for quantitative assessment of murine cerebral malaria.

Cerebral malaria (CM) is a neurological syndrome that includes coma and seizures following malaria parasite infection. The pathophysiology is not fully understood and cannot be accounted for by infection alone: patients still succumb to CM, even if the underlying parasite infection has resolved. To...

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Main Authors: Ryan W Carroll, Mark S Wainwright, Kwang-Youn Kim, Trilokesh Kidambi, Noé D Gómez, Terrie Taylor, Kasturi Haldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2948515?pdf=render