Changes in the activity of glutathione-S-transferase in muscles and sera from mice infected with Trichinella spiralis after treatment with albendazole and levamisole

Parasitology Research

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 509-512

  Derda, Monika ^a   Boczoń, Krystyna ^a   Wandurska Nowak, Elzbieta ^a   Wojt, Waldemar ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LEVAMISOLE; OXYGEN RADICAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 0037390971     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0825-y     Document Type: Article

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