Evidence that antisulfatide autoantibodies from rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi bind to homologous neural tissue

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 446-451

  Feldman, S ^a   Garcia G ^b   Svetaz, M J ^b   Avila, J L ^c   Revelli, S ^a   Bottasso, O A ^a   Marcipar, A ^d  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b Fac Cie Bioquimicas y F   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^d INTEBIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CEREBROSIDE; SULFATIDE;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROPATHY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SULFOGLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032915893     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050576     Document Type: Article

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