Ultrastructural alterations induced by the neolignan dihydrobenzofuranic eupomatenoid-5 on epimastigote and amastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-37

  Luize, Patrícia Shima ^a   Ueda Nakamura, Tânia ^a   Filho, Benedito Prado Dias ^a   Cortez, Diógenes Aparício Garcia ^a   Morgado Díaz, José Andrés ^b   De Souza, Wanderley ^c   Nakamura, Celso Vataru ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOLIGNAN; NEOLIGNAN DIHYDROBENZOFURANIC EUPOMATENOID; PIPER PALLESCENS EXTRACT; PIPER REGNELLII EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL COUNT; CELL VACUOLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ISOLATION; EPIMASTIGOTE; KINETOPLAST; MITOCHONDRION; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; NONHUMAN; PIPER REGNELLII; PIPERACEAE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHENOLS; PIPER; PLANT LEAVES; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PIPER REGNELLII; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33751203002     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0241-9     Document Type: Article

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