Technical Reference #418

Glass Bottom Culture Dishes

This study used MatTek product(s):

Citation in paper containing MatTek reference:
glass-bottom well dish (MatTek)

418.

Imaging Movement Of Malaria Parasites During Transmission By Anopheles Mosquitoes Friedrich Frischknecht; Patricia Baldacci; Béatrice Martin; Christophe Zimmer; Sabine Thiberge; Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin; Spencer L. Shorte and Robert Ménard, Institut Pasteur, Cellular Microbiology, 6(418), (2004)
Link To Paper

Abstract:
Malaria is contracted when Plasmodium sporozoites are inoculated into the vertebrate host during theblood meal of a mosquito. In infected mosquitoessporozoites are present in large numbers in the secretorycavities of the salivary glands at the m

Keywords:
Malaria; mosquito; Plasmodium sporozoites

Materials & Methods:
The Plasmodium berghei NK65 strain transformed to express GFP at the sporozoite stage was described previously (Natarajan et al. 2001). Parasite stocks were refreshed after several months by natural transmission from mosquitoes to mice. Mice developin

Microscopic Technique
Time Lapse Microscopy, Time Lapse

Cell Type(s)
SALIVARY