• Thumbnail for Hemozoin
    crystalline form called hemozoin. In malaria parasites, hemozoin is often called malaria pigment. Since the formation of hemozoin is essential to the survival...
    28 KB (3,373 words) - 21:06, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chloroquine
    this molecule, the parasite biocrystallizes heme to form hemozoin, a nontoxic molecule. Hemozoin collects in the digestive vacuole as insoluble crystals...
    48 KB (5,892 words) - 10:46, 26 July 2024
  • cells which causes rupture of these cells and release of a toxic substance hemozoin which causes chills recurring every 3 to 4 days. Sometimes they happen...
    4 KB (472 words) - 09:53, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Schüffner's dots
    Plasmodium ovale microgametocyte in Giemsa-stained thin blood film, with annotated Schüffner's dots and hemozoin pigment...
    2 KB (162 words) - 18:39, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plasmodium falciparum
    doi:10.1038/35005132. PMID 10749217. S2CID 4420567. Hempelmann E (2007). "Hemozoin biocrystallization in Plasmodium falciparum and the antimalarial activity...
    92 KB (10,390 words) - 18:59, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plasmodium
    merogony inside host red blood cells and produce the crystalline pigment hemozoin as a byproduct of digesting host hemoglobin. Plasmodium species contain...
    42 KB (4,171 words) - 06:32, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biocrystallization
    biocrystallizes heme to form hemozoin. To date, the only definitively characterized product of hematin disposal is the pigment hemozoin. Hemozoin is per definitionem...
    5 KB (487 words) - 02:50, 9 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Quinine
    related quinoline drug, chloroquine. This model involves the inhibition of hemozoin biocrystallization in the heme detoxification pathway, which facilitates...
    63 KB (6,755 words) - 04:15, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Artemisia annua
    reside in red blood cells and contain iron-rich heme-groups (in the form of hemozoin). In 2015, artemisinin was shown to bind to a large number of cell targets...
    23 KB (2,537 words) - 02:44, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Α-Glucosidase
    Rhodnius prolixus, a blood-sucking insect, forms hemozoin (Hz) during digestion of host hemoglobin. Hemozoin synthesis is dependent on the substrate binding...
    15 KB (1,751 words) - 14:31, 1 July 2024