Alterations triggered by steroid gonadal hormones in triglycerides and the cellular immune response of Calomys callosus infected with the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 21-27

  Fernandes, Renata D'Ambrósio ^a   Caetano, Leony Cristina ^a   dos Santos, Carla Domingues ^a   Abrahão, Ana Amélia Carraro ^a   Pinto, Ana Cláudia Henriques ^a   Prado Jr , José C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calomys callosus; Gonadal hormones; Nitric oxide; Spleen cells proliferation; Triglycerides; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; NITRIC OXIDE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALOMYS CALLOSUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PARASITEMIA; RODENT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PARASITEMIA; SEX FACTORS; SIGMODONTINAE; TRIGLYCERIDES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; CALOMYS CALLOSUS; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 38749127615     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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