Increased excretion of aromatic amino acid catabolites in animals infected with Trypanosoma brucei evansi

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 469-473

  El Sawalhy, Ahmed ^a   Seed, John R ^a,b   Hall, James Edwin ^a,b   El Attar, Hassam ^a  

^a Benha Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCRETION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; URINE COLOR;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; INDOLES; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACIDS; SURAMIN; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TYROSINE TRANSAMINASE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0031812502     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284707     Document Type: Article

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