Schistosoma mansoni: Susceptibility differences between male and female mice can be mediated by testosterone during early infection

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-240

  Nakazawa, Masatoshi ^a   Fantappie, Marcelo R ^d   Freeman Jr , George L ^a   Eloi Santos, Silvana ^b   Olsen, Nancy J ^c   Kovacs, W J ^c   Secor, W Evan ^a   Colley, Daniel G ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 0031105197     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4148     Document Type: Article

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