Hymenolepis diminuta: Mucosal mastocytosis and intestinal smooth muscle hypertrophy occur in tapeworm-infected rats

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 92-102

  Dwinell, Michael B ^a,d   Wise, Ruth M ^b,d   Bass, Paul ^c   Oaks, John A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETOTIFEN; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYPERTROPHY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; MASTOCYTOSIS; MYOELECTRICITY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CESTODIASIS; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MAST CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYPERTROPHY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; KETOTIFEN; MALE; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032056393     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4271     Document Type: Article

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