Evidence for a perforin-mediated mechanism controlling cardiac inflammation in Trypanosoma cruzi infection

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 67-79

  Henriques Pons, Andrea ^a,b   Oliveira, Gabriel M ^a   Paiva, Mauricio M ^a   Correa, Alexandre F S ^a   Batista, Marcos M ^a   Bisaggio, Rodrigo C ^b   Liu, Chau Ching ^c   Cotta De Almeida, Vinícius ^a   Coutinho, Claudia M L M ^d   Persechini, Pedro M ^b   Araújo Jorge, Tania C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Immune regulation; Infection and cell death; Inflammation; Myocarditis; Perforin; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOTOXICITY; DESTRUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL RATE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; EXERTION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYOCARDIUM; PARASITEMIA; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036307420     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2613.2002.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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