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ArticleAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2021

Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Immune Modulation in Malaria.

Tawanda Zininga, Evelyn Böttger, Gabriele Multhoff

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Article in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Tawanda ZiningaDepartment of Biochemistry, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. tzininga@sun.ac.za.
Evelyn BöttgerInstitute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Gabriele MulthoffKlinik und Poliklinik für Strahlentherapie und Radiologische Onkologie, Klinikum rechts der Isar and Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research TU München (TranslaTUM), Munich, Germany.

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Abstract

Malaria is one of the major parasitic killer diseases worldwide. Severe cases of malaria are mostly in children under the age of 5 years due to their naïve immune system and in pregnant women with weakened immune responses. Inflammatory immune responses against the parasite involve complement activation as well as the antibody and effector cell-mediated immune system. However, after an infection with Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum), the most dangerous malaria species, the host-derived immunity is often insufficient to completely inhibit the infection cycles of the parasite in red blood cells for yet unknown reasons. In the present chapter we aim to elucidate the role of the host's and the parasite's heat shock proteins (HSPs) in the development of a novel anti-malaria therapeutic approach.

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MalariaMalaria, FalciparumChild, PreschoolErythrocytesFemaleHeat-Shock ProteinsHumansImmunityPlasmodium falciparumPregnancyProtozoan ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsEryptosisGranzyme BImmunotherapyInfected erythrocyteNatural killer cellParasite heat shock protein

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