Myocardiocyte ultrastructure and morphometrical analysis in hamsters experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-147

  Colmanetti, Francisco Humberto ^a   Antunes Teixeira, Vicente De Paula ^a   Pinto Rodrigues, Maria Laura ^a   Lazo Chica, Javier Emílo ^a   Reis, Maria Das Graças ^a,b   Modesto Dos Santos, Vitorino ^a  

^a Triangulo Mineiro Medical School   (Brazil)

^b Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Hamster; Heart; Morphometry; Myocardiocytes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DENSITY; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL SWELLING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; TRANSVERSE TUBULAR SYSTEM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 18044398199     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019131290923974     Document Type: Article

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