Artemisinin directly targets malarial mitochondria through its specific mitochondrial activation.

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Published in PLoS One on March 08, 2010

Authors

Juan Wang1, Liying Huang, Jian Li, Qiangwang Fan, Yicheng Long, Ying Li, Bing Zhou

Author Affiliations

1: The State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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