Vitamin E deficiency enhances pathology in acute Trypanosoma cruzi-infected rats

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1025-1031

  Carvalho, Luciana S C ^a   Camargos, Elizabeth R S ^a   Almeida, Cecília T ^a   Peluzio, Maria do Carmo Gouveia ^a   Alvarez Leite, Jacqueline I ^a   Chiari, Egler ^a   Reis, Débora d'Ávila ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Chagas disease; Denervation; Heart; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEART DENERVATION; HEART VENTRICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHAGAS DISEASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33748356093     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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