The effect of methylprednisolone on the dynamics of oxygen uptake and peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activities in skeletal muscles of mice infected with Trichinella spiralis larvae

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-56

  Wandurska Nowak, Elzbieta ^a   Boczoń, Krystyna ^a   Derda, Monika ^a   Hadaś, Edward ^a   Matias Guzek, Alicja ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

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