Local and systemic cytokine expression during experimental chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a Cebus monkey model

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 451-460

  Samudio, Margarita ^a   Montenegro James, Sonia ^b,c   Kasamatsu, Elena ^a   Cabral, Margarita ^a   Schinini, Alicia ^a   De Arias, Antonieta Rojas ^a   James, Mark A ^b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cebus apella; Chagas' disease; Cytokines; RT PCR; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CEBIDAE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGENETICS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CEBUS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032779720     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1999.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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