Trypanosoma cruzi: In vitro and in vivo antiproliferative effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-194

  Güida, María C ^a   Esteva, Mónica I ^b   Camino, Alejandra ^c   Flawiá, Mirtha M ^a   Torres, Héctor N ^a   Paveto, Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Epigallocatechin gallate; PCD; Programmed cell death; Trypanocide Chagas' disease

Indexed keywords

EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATECHIN; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEPATOCYTES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34548252803     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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