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Infection and Immunity, February 2005, p. 1209-1213, Vol. 73, No. 2
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/IAI.73.2.1209-1213.2005
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and Retinoid X Receptor Agonists Have Minimal Effects on the Interaction of Endothelial Cells with Plasmodium falciparum- Infected Erythrocytes

McLaughlin-Rotman Global Health Program, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto, and Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Received 30 July 2004/ Returned for modification 6 September 2004/ Accepted 25 October 2004
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
-retinoid X receptor (PPAR
-RXR) agonists had minimal effects on the surface levels of CD36, intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1, or platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 and had no effect on the cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes to either human umbilical vein endothelial cells or human microvascular endothelial cells or on malaria-induced interleukin-6 secretion from these cells. PPAR
-RXR agonists do not significantly modify malaria-infected erythrocyte-endothelial cell interactions in vitro.
Present address: Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8 Canada.
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