Brain slices organotypic culture, a new model to study Toxoplasma gondii infection

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Couzinet, Sabine ^a   Hafidi, Aziz ^a   Prensier, Gerard ^a   Vivares, Christian ^a   Romand, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODEL; PATHOGENESIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0033199879     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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