Compromised microcirculation in acute murine Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 124-130

  Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a   Kaul, Dhananjaya K ^a   Chen, Bing ^a   Morris, Stephen A ^a   Factor, Stephen M ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a   Wittner, Murray ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMASTER MUSCLE; ERYTHROCYTE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VASODILATATION; VASOSPASM; VENULE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPASM; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0029929398     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284127     Document Type: Article

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