Ultrastructural changes induced in the tegument and gut of Fasciola hepatica following in vivo and in vitro drug treatment with nitroxynil (Trodax)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 929-941

  McKinstry, B ^a   Brennan, G P ^a   Halferty, L ^a   Forbes, A B ^b   Fairweather, I ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; NITROXINIL; NITROXINIL EGLUMINE; SECRETORY COMPONENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; INCUBATION TIME; INTEGUMENT; INTESTINE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWELLING; SYNCYTIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREMATODE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIPLATYHELMINTIC AGENTS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NITROXINIL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

FASCIOLA HEPATICA; RATTUS;

EID: 34547814680     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0564-1     Document Type: Article

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