Live <italic toggle="yes">In Vivo</italic> Imaging of <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut

Live <italic toggle="yes">In Vivo</italic> Imaging of <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut

ABSTRACT The mosquito midgut is a critical barrier that Plasmodium parasites must overcome to complete their developmental cycle and be transmitted to a new vertebrate host. Previous confocal studies with fixed infected midguts showed that ookinetes traverse midgut epithelial cells and cause irrever...

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Main Authors: Nathanie Trisnadi, Carolina Barillas-Mury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-10-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
F-actin
Plasmodium
anopheles
apoptosis
caspases
live imaging
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00692-20

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