Rogerson Stephen J, Walker Isobel S, Aitken Elizabeth H
Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia.
Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia.
Trends Parasitol. 2025 Feb;41(2):78-79. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.12.010. Epub 2025 Jan 3.
In Plasmodium falciparum malaria, infected cells accumulate in blood vessels of organs, including the brain. Recently, Reyes et al. identified monoclonal antibodies that stop infected cells from binding to the endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) in a model of brain blood vessels. EPCR-blocking monoclonals could form the basis of new treatments for severe malaria.
在恶性疟原虫疟疾中,受感染的细胞会在包括大脑在内的器官血管中积聚。最近,雷耶斯等人在脑血管理模型中鉴定出了能阻止受感染细胞与内皮蛋白C受体(EPCR)结合的单克隆抗体。阻断EPCR的单克隆抗体可能成为重症疟疾新疗法的基础。