TY - JOUR A2 - Wahlgren, Mats AU - Dhangadamajhi, Gunanidhi AU - Kar, Shantanu Kumar AU - Ranjit, Manoranjan PY - 2010 DA - 2010/08/19 TI - The Survival Strategies of Malaria Parasite in the Red Blood Cell and Host Cell Polymorphisms SP - 973094 VL - 2010 AB - Parasite growth within the erythrocyte causes dramatic alterations of host cell which on one hand facilitates nutrients acquisition from extracellular environment and on other hand contributes to the symptoms of severe malaria. The current paper focuses on interactions between the Plasmodium parasite and its metabolically highly reduced host cell, the natural selection of numerous polymorphisms in the genes encoding hemoglobin and other erythrocyte proteins. SN - 2090-8075 UR - https://doi.org/10.4061/2010/973094 DO - 10.4061/2010/973094 JF - Malaria Research and Treatment PB - SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research KW - ER -