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Involvement of heme in the antimalarial action of chloroquine.

When malaria parasites digest hemoglobin, they release FP intracellularly. FP is an oxidized form of heme which is toxic for biological membranes. The parasites are not poisoned when they digest hemoglobin, however, because they sequester FP in hemozoin. In fact, the refractile, dark brown substance...

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Hovedforfatter: Fitch, C. D.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: American Clinical and Climatological Association 1998
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2194336/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9601131
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