Plasmodium falciparum Adhesion on Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Involves Transmigration-Like Cup Formation and Induces Opening of Intercellular Junctions

• Ronan Jambou ,

  * E-mail: rjambou@pasteur.fr

  Current address: Département de Parasitologie Mycologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

  Affiliations Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Parasitology Mycology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Valery Combes,

  Affiliation Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Marie-Jose Jambou,

  Affiliation Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Babeth B. Weksler,

  Affiliations Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, INSERM U567, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Pierre-Olivier Couraud,

  Affiliation Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, INSERM U567, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

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• Georges E. Grau

  Affiliation Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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