Plasmodium berghei: Cerebral malaria in CBA mice is not clearly related to plasma TNF levels or intensity of histopathological changes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Carvalho, L J M ^a   Daniel Ribeiro, C T ^a   Ferreira Da Cruz, M F ^a   Lenzi, H L ^a   Pelajo Machado, M ^a   Oliveira, D N ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MALARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MEROZOITE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034085514     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2000.4508     Document Type: Article

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