Figure 4. Adhesion of asexual and sexual stages of AQ104 and 3D7 on TNF-alpha stimulated HDMEC, HUVEC and HBMEC cell lines.

Static assays were carried out as described in the Material and methods section. Values are expressed as % of bound parasites per mm² of the ItG control. Data shown are the mean number of iRBC per mm² ± S.E. of at least 3 biological replicates was counted and expressed as % of bound parasites per mm² of the ItG control.