| Literature DB >> 17049517 |
Takeshi Ono1, Takushi Tadakuma, Ana Rodriguez.
Abstract
Plasmodium yoelii is a rodent parasite commonly used as a model to study malaria infection. It is the preferred model parasite for liver-stage immunological studies and is also widely used to study hepatocyte, erythrocyte and mosquito infection. We have generated a P. yoelii yoelii 17XNL line that is stably transfected with the green fluorescent protein (gfp) gene. This parasite line constitutively expresses high levels of GFP during the complete parasite life cycle including liver, blood and mosquito stages. These fluorescent parasites can be used in combination with fluorescence activated cell sorting or live microscopy for a wide range of experimental applications.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17049517 PMCID: PMC1779952 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.09.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Parasitol ISSN: 0014-4894 Impact factor: 2.011