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SUBMITTER: Kurup SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459714 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurup Samarchith P SP Anthony Scott M SM Hancox Lisa S LS Vijay Rahul R Pewe Lecia L LL Moioffer Steven J SJ Sompallae Ramakrishna R Janse Chris J CJ Khan Shahid M SM Harty John T JT
Cell host & microbe 20190321 4
Plasmodium sporozoites inoculated by mosquitoes migrate to the liver and infect hepatocytes prior to release of merozoites that initiate symptomatic blood-stage malaria. Plasmodium parasites are thought to be restricted to hepatocytes throughout this obligate liver stage of development, and how liver-stage-expressed antigens prime productive CD8 T cell responses remains unknown. We found that a subset of liver-infiltrating monocyte-derived CD11c<sup>+</sup> cells co-expressing F4/80, CD103, CD20 ...[more]