title: Some reflections concerning host erythrocyte-malarial parasite interrelationships.
abstract: During the intraerythrocytic development of the malarial parasite, the host cell's structure and function are altered to such an extent that the infected red blood cell may be regarded as a finely tuned, although imperfect, symbiotic organism. Problems such as the control of the parasite's life and cell cycles, volume regulation of the malaria-infected erythrocyte, the energy metabolism of the malaria-infected red blood cell, and the possible metabolic purpose for parasite oxidative stressing of its host cell, seem worth addressing at the outset.
authors: Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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authors: Ginsburg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism / Q000469:parasitology*; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000097:blood* / Q000469:parasitology; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000254:growth & development*