Trypanosoma cruzi: The development of estrus cycle and parasitemia in female mice maintained with or without male pheromones

Parasitology Research

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 985-993

  Schuster, Juliane P ^a   Schaub, Günter A ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PHEROMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANESTRUS; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARASITEMIA; PHEROMONES; PROGESTERONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034760803     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360100472     Document Type: Article

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