Plasmodium berghei: Development of an irreversible experimental malaria model in Wistar rats

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-196

  Pedroni, Helen Cristina ^a   Bettoni, Clarissa Cassini ^a   Spalding, Silvia Maria ^a   Dalla Costa, Teresa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Malaria infection model; Plasmodium berghei; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ERYTHROCYTE; EVALUATION; INOCULATION; LETHALITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33744522022     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.12.017     Document Type: Article

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