Experimental chagas disease: The influence of sex and psychoneuroimmunological factors

Parasitology Research

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 994-1000

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

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034763169     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360100474     Document Type: Article

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