Intracellular Growth of Trypanosoma cruzi in Cardiac Myocytes Is Inhibited by Cytokine-Induced Nitric Oxide Release

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 359-363

  Fichera, Laura Edith ^a   Albareda, Maria Cecilia ^a   Laucella, Susana Adriana ^a   Postan, Miriam ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; REAGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0347511909     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.1.359-363.2004     Document Type: Article

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