Depletion of immune effector cells induces myocardial damage in the acute experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection: Ultrastructural study in rats

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-290

  Melo, R C N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Gamma irradiation; Macrophage depletion; Myocardial damage; Myocarditis; Silica

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DAMAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EFFECTOR CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GRANULOCYTE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032779743     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/tice.1999.0040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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