Megacolon in Chagas disease: a study of inflammatory cells, enteric nerves, and glial cells

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1256-1264

  da Silveira, Alexandre Barcelos Morais ^a   Lemos, Elenice M ^b   Adad, Sheila J ^c   Correa Oliveira, Rodrigo ^d   Furness, John B ^e   D'Avila Reis, Débora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^c Department of Pathology   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chagasic megacolon; Enteric nerves; Enteric nervous system; Glial cells; Inflammatory cells

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MEGACOLON; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NERVE CELL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLON; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MEGACOLON; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROGLIA; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEINS; SUBMUCOUS PLEXUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 34447337786     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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