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What is haemozoin?


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Haemozoin:

  1. After consuming blood, haemozoin is a waste product produced by blood-feeding parasites ( hematophagous species).
  2. These hematophagous species, such as malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp. ), consume haemoglobin and produce large amounts of free heme and free-heme is toxic to cells.
  3. So, the parasites convert the free-heme into an insoluble, crystalline form called hemozoin.
  4. Haemozoin is also known as malaria pigment in malaria parasites.

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