Pathology of intracardiac nerves in experimental chagas disease

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1019-1025

  Ribeiro, Lídia Cristina Villela ^a   Barbosa Jr , Aryon A ^a   Andrade, Zilton A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Intracardiac nerves; Myocarditis; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART; INNERVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEART; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036779950     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762002000700016     Document Type: Article

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