Disruption of myofibrillar proteins in cardiac muscle of Calomys callosus chronically infected with Trypanosoma cruzi and treated with immunosuppressive agent

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-331

  Taniwaki, Noemi N ^a   Andreoli, Walter K ^b   Calabrese, Kátia S ^c   Da Silva, Solange ^b   Mortara, Renato A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Departamento de Protozoologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calomys callosus; Cardiac myofibrillar proteins; Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; Trypanosoma cruz

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CARDIAC MYOSIN; CONNECTIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMIN; GENUXAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RODENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; ARVICOLINAE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; RODENT DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; CALOMYS CALLOSUS; CRICETINAE; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 26944440504     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1429-0     Document Type: Article

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