Qualitative and quantitative morphology of the vagus nerve in experimental Chagas' disease in rats: A light microscopy study

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 672-677

  Fazan, Valeria Paula Sassoli ^a   Lachat, Joao Jose ^b  

^a School of Medicine of Triangulo Mineiro   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031473557     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.672     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Tafuri WL, Raso P, 1962. Lesoes do sistema nervoso autonome do camundongo albino na tripanossomiase. Hospital 62: 1324-1342.
2. Tafuri WL, Raso P, 1979. Lesoes do sistema nervoso autonomo simpatico do camundongo na fase aguda da tripanossomose cruzi experimental. Estudo ao microscopio optico e eletronico. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 21: 178-188.
3. Tafuri WL, Maria TA, Lopes ER, 1971. Lesoes do plexo mioenterico do esofago, do jejuno e do colo de chagasicos crinicos. Estudo ao microscopio eletronico. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 13: 76-91.
4. Tafuri WL, Brenner Z, 1966. Lesoes do sistema nervoso autonomo do camundongo albino na fase cronica da tripanossomiase cruzi experimental. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 8: 177-183.
5. Barreira AA, Said G, Krettli AU, 1981. Multifocal demyelinative lesions of peripheral nerves in experimental chronic Chagas' disease (letter). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 75: 751.
6. Gonzales Cappa SM, Sanz OP, Muller LA, Molina HA, Fernandez J, Rimoldi MT, Sica REP, 1987. Peripheral nervous system damage in experimental chronic Chagas' disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg 36: 41-45.
7. Losavio A, Jones MC, Sanz OP, Mirkin G, Gonzalez Cappa SM, Muchnik S, Sica REP, 1989. A sequential study of the pe- ripheral nervous system involvement in experimental Chagas' disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg 41: 539-547.
8. Lopes ER, Tafuri WL, Chapadeiro E, 1969. Estudo morfoligico e quantitativo dos nucleos dorsal do vago e hipoglosso em chagasicos cronicos com e sem megaesofago. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 11: 123-129.
9. Tafuri WL, 1970. Pathogenesis of lesions of the autonomic nervous system of the mouse in experimental acute Chagas' disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg 19: 405-417.
10. Head GA, McCarty R, 1987. Vagal and sympathetic components of the heart gain of the baroreceptor-heart rate reflex in conscious rats. J Auton Nerv Syst 21: 203-213.
11. Head GA, Adams MA, 1988. Time course of changes in baroreceptor reflex control of heart rate in conscious SHR and WKY: contribution of the cardiac vagus and sympathetic nerves. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 15: 289-292.
12. Junqueira LF Jr, Beraldo PSS, Chapadeiro E, Jesus PC, 1992. Cardiac autonomic dysfunction and neuroganglionitis in a rat model of chronic Chagas' disease. Cardiovasc Res 26: 234-239.
13. Thomas PK, Ochoa J, 1984. Microscope anatomy of peripheral nerve fibres. Dyck PJ, Thomas PK, Lambert EH, Bunge RJNB, ed. Peripheral Neuropathy. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 39-96.
14. Said 6, Joskowicz M, Barreira AA, Eisen H, 1985. Neuropathy associated with experimental Chagas' disease. Ann Neurol 18: 676-683.
15. Grover-Jobnson N. Spencer PS. 1979. Peripheral nerve abnormalities in aging rats. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 38: 316-327.
16. Machado CRS, Ribeiro ALP. 1989. Experimental American trypanosomiasis in rats: sympathetic denervation, parasitism and inflammatory process. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 84: 549-556.
17. Hasan SU, Sarnat HB, Auer RN, 1993. Vagal nerve maturation in the fetal lamb: an ultrastructural and morphometric study. Anat Rec 237: 527-537.
18. Bestetti RB, Soares EG, Sales-Neto VS, Araujo RC, Oliveira JSM, 1987. The resting electrocardiogram of T. cruzi infected rats. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 29: 224-229.
19. Davila DF, Gottberg CE Torres A, Holzhaker G, Barrios R, Ramoni P, Donis JH, 1995. Cardiac sympathetic-parasympathetic balance in rats with experimentally-induced acute chagasic myocarditis. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 37: 155-159.
20. Chapadeiro E. Florencio RFC, Afonso PC Beraldo PSS, Jesus PC Junqueira LF Jr, 1991. Neuronal counting and parasympathetic dysfunction in the hearts of chronically Trypanosoma critzi infected rats. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 33: 337-341.
21. Idiaques J, 1996. Somatic and autonomic nerve studies in Chagas' disease. Muscle Nerve 19: 678-679.
22. Camargos ERS, Machado CRS, 1988. Morphometric and histological analysis of the superior cervical ganglion in experimental Chagas' disease in rats. Am J Trop Med Hyg 39: 456-462.