Evidence of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in human cerebral malaria.
Patients infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum may develop a diffuse reversible encephalopathy, termed cerebral malaria. It is unclear how the intraerythrocytic parasite, which sequesters in the cerebral microvasculature but does not enter the brain parenchyma, induces this neurol...
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| 格式: | Journal article |
| 語言: | English |
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1999
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