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Method Article
Georges Snounou
Snounou-Mazier Lab, INSERM-UPMC
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The dormant liver stages, hypnozoites, of some malaria parasite species were not amenable to in vitro studies because primary hepatocyte cultures could not be maintained beyond 10-14 days. In this protocol we describe a co-culture system where primary simian hepatocyte could be maintained for a month or more through co-cultivation with an immortalised liver derived cell line, Hepa-RG. The hepatocytes can be infected with Plasmodium sporozoites and the persisting hypnozoites can then observed and investigated
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Cultivation, Hepatocyte, Hypnozoite, Malaria, Plasmodium
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Persistence and activation of malaria hypnozoites in long-term primary hepatocyte cultures
by Laurent Dembélé, Jean-François Franetich, Audrey Lorthiois, +10
Nature Medicine (11 August, 2013)
Method Article
Georges Snounou
Snounou-Mazier Lab, INSERM-UPMC
Corresponding Author
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The dormant liver stages, hypnozoites, of some malaria parasite species were not amenable to in vitro studies because primary hepatocyte cultures could not be maintained beyond 10-14 days. In this protocol we describe a co-culture system where primary simian hepatocyte could be maintained for a month or more through co-cultivation with an immortalised liver derived cell line, Hepa-RG. The hepatocytes can be infected with Plasmodium sporozoites and the persisting hypnozoites can then observed and investigated
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Associated Publications
Persistence and activation of malaria hypnozoites in long-term primary hepatocyte cultures
by Laurent Dembélé, Jean-François Franetich, Audrey Lorthiois, +10
Nature Medicine (11 August, 2013)