Selenium supplementation at low doses contributes to the decrease in heart damage in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Parasitology Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-54

  De Souza, Andréa P ^a   De Oliveira, Gabriel Melo ^a   Vanderpas, Jean ^b   De Castro, Solange L ^a   Rivera, Maria Teresa ^a   Araújo Jorge, Tania C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ambroise Pare   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART PROTECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INCUBATION TIME; INFLAMMATION; LYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPLEMENTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; PARASITEMIA; SELENIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0141426830     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0867-9     Document Type: Article

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