MAPK ERK Signaling Regulates the TGF-β1-Dependent Mosquito Response to Plasmodium falciparum
Figure 5
Effect of treatments on growth of asexual stage Plasmodium falciparum.
Replicated cultures of P. falciparum NF54 were divided into treatment and control groups with 4 replicates per group and incubated for 50 h with the indicated treatments. The volume of PBS was equivalent to that used for TGF-β1 treatments. Parasite growth was analyzed as described in the Materials and Methods. Relative growth is compared to the PBS control which is indicated as 100%. The data are represented as means and were analyzed using ANOVA for overall significance and by Student-Neuman-Keuls for multiple pairwise comparisons. Different lower case letters indicate differences (p<0.05) among treatment groups.