Transmission electron microscope study of the ultrastructural changes induced in the tegument and gut of Fasciola hepatica following in vivo drug treatment with clorsulon

Parasitology Research

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 232-241

  Meaney, M ^a   Fairweather, I ^a   Brennan, G P ^a   Forbes, A B ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CLOSULON; FAT DROPLET; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BILE DUCT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL VACUOLE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GOLGI COMPLEX; IN VIVO STUDY; INTEGUMENT; INTESTINE; MALE; MATURATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SULFANILAMIDES;

ANIMALIA; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; TREMATODA;

EID: 1242292989     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-1036-x     Document Type: Article

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