Cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppression protects cardiac noradrenergic nerve terminals from damage by Trypanosoma cruzi infection in adult rats

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 505-509

  Guerra, Leonor B ^a   Andrade, Luciana O ^a   Galvão, Lúcia M C ^a   Macedo, Andréa M ^a   Machado, Conceição R S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cardiac sympathetic innervation; Chagas disease; Cyclophosphamide; Myocarditis; Neuronal damage; Rats

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECTOR CELL; HEART DENERVATION; HEART PROTECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INOCULATION; MACROPHAGE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0035467560     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90021-5     Document Type: Article

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