Immune response, nitric oxide, autonomic dysfunction and stroke: A puzzling linkage on Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 374-377

  Pinto, N X ^a,b   Torres Hillera, M A ^b   Mendoza, E ^b   Leon Sarmiento F E ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Neuromuscular Diseases and Motor Control   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS2A PROTEIN, HUMAN; NOS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEUROMODULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VASOCONSTRICTION; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036020684     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2001.1401     Document Type: Article

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