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food vacuole

Known as: digestive vacuole 
Vacuole within a parasite used for digestion of the host cell cytoplasm. An example of this component is found in the Apicomplexa. [GOC:mb]
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2017
2017
Shining new light on ancient drugs: preparation and subcellular localisation of novel fluorescent analogues of Cinchona alkaloids in intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum.
Fluorescent derivatives of the archetypal antimalarial quinine and its diastereomer, quinidine, suitable for cellular imaging… 
2012
2012
Single-nucleotide polymorphism and copy number variation of the multidrug resistance-1 locus of Plasmodium vivax: local and global patterns.
Emerging resistance to chloroquine (CQ) poses a major challenge for Plasmodium vivax malaria control, and nucleotide… 
2009
2009
Evidence for Catalytic Roles for Plasmodium falciparum Aminopeptidase P in the Food Vacuole and Cytosol*
The metalloenzyme aminopeptidase P catalyzes the hydrolysis of amino acids from the amino termini of peptides with a prolyl… 
2002
2002
The kinetics of uptake and accumulation of 3,6-bis-omega-diethylamino-amyloxyxanthone by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
2001
2001
Phagosome Formation in Paramecium: Roles of Somatic and Oral Cilia and of Solid Particles as Revealed by Video Microscopy
Abstract The roles of somatic and oral cilia and solid particles during digestive vacuole (DV) formation in Paramecium… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Plasmodial hemoglobin degradation: an ordered pathway in a specialized organelle.
During its intraerythrocytic development, the malarial parasite devours most of the hemoglobin in its host cell. This enormous… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Plasmodium falciparum: inhibitors of lysosomal cysteine proteinases inhibit a trophozoite proteinase and block parasite development.
1988
1988
Phagosome formation in Paramecium: effects of solid particles.
Digestive vacuole (DV) formation in Paramecium can be separated into four steps: sequestration and recycling of the spent DV… 
1981
1981
Axenic Paramecium caudatum. III. Biochemical and physiological changes with culture age.
As Paramecium caudatum passes through the lag, log and stationary phases of the culture cycle, cellular protein content, polar… 
1979
1979
Acid hydrolases and their release in food vacuole-less mutants of Tetrahymena thermophila.
Mutants (NP1 and PSJ5) of Tetrahymena thermophila strains B and D 1968 exist that are unable to construct a functional oral… 
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