期刊
MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
卷 154, 期 1, 页码 119-123出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.04.008
关键词
Plasmodium falciparum; malaria; gametocyte; sexual development; method; transmission
资金
- Wellcome Trust [012174, 066742, 058038] Funding Source: Medline
The sexual stages of the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle are attractive targets for vaccines and transmission blocking drugs. Difficulties in culturing and obtaining large amounts of sexual stage P falciparum parasites, particularly early stages, have often limited research progress in this area. We present a new protocol which simplifies the process of stimulating gametocytogenesis leading to improved synchronous gametocyte production. This new method can be adapted to enrich for early stage gametocytes (I and II) with a higher degree of purity than has previously been achieved, using MACS((R)) magnetic affinity columns. The protocol described lends itself to large scale culturing and harvesting of synchronous parasites suitable for biochemical assays, northern blots, flow cytometry, microarrays and proteomic analysis. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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