Systemic and placental productions of tumor necrosis factor contribute to induce fetal mortality in mice acutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 58-64

  Mjihdi, Abdelkarim ^a   Truyens, Carine ^a   Detournay, Olivier ^a   Carlier, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PENTOXIFYLLINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; BLOOD; CELL LYSATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MICE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2942685124     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2004.03.016     Document Type: Article

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