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. 2014 Feb 26;9(2):e88976. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088976

Figure 3. Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy identifies the crystals produced by different lipids as β-hematin.

Figure 3

The crystals were produced by 100 µM uPC (A), uPS (B), uPE (C) or 10 µg/mL total lipids isolated from PMVM of R. prolixus previously fed with plasma (D) or blood (E). The characteristic iron-carboxylate peaks of β-hematin at 1210 and 1663 cm−1 are shown.