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GAMETOCYTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gametocyte mean?
• GAMETOCYTE (noun)
The noun GAMETOCYTE has 1 sense:
1. an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis
Familiarity information: GAMETOCYTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("gametocyte" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gametocyte"):
oocyte (a female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions)
spermatocyte (a male gametocyte that develops into four spermatids)
Context examples
In addition, this agent is highly active against the erythrocytic forms of P. vivax and malariae and most strains of P. falciparum but not the gametocytes of P. falciparum.
(Hydroxychloroquine, NCI Thesaurus)
The new findings show that plasmepsin V is also essential in a subset of parasites called gametocytes (sexual form of the malaria parasite) that transition to infect the mosquito.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
We are testing if we can develop drugs that block plasmepsin V not just in blood and gametocyte stages but also during liver infection as a prophylactic, Boddey tells.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
They (gametocytes) go via a blood meal into the mosquito’s stomach.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
New drug development for malaria is focused on all stages of the malaria parasite’s lifecycle — liver, blood and gametocyte.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
We have developed small molecule compounds that act as an ‘inhibitor’, and by inhibiting the plasmepsin V enzyme in gametocytes, we can block them from transmitting to mosquitoes.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
So far, our published studies show that inhibiting plasmepsin V blocks two of the three lifecycle stages — the blood phase (sickness) as well as the gametocyte stage (transmission) with a single drug, and we are currently seeing positive results against the liver stage, says Boddey.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
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