Extracellular ATP induces cell death in CD4+/CD8+ double-positive thymocytes in mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1363-1371

  Mantuano Barradas, Marcio ^a   Henriques Pons, Andréa ^a,b   Araújo Jorge, Tânia C ^b   Di Virgilio, Francesco ^c   Coutinho Silva, Robson ^a   Persechini, Pedro M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATP; Atrophy; Nucleotide receptor; P2X7; Thymus; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PURINE P2 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X7 RECEPTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0345096514     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2003.09.017     Document Type: Article

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