Trypanosoma cruzi induces changes in cardiac connexin43 expression

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-28

  Adesse, Daniel ^a   Garzoni, Luciana R ^a   Huang, Huan ^b   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^b   de Nazareth Meirelles, Maria ^a   Spray, David C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac myocytes; Chagas' disease; Connexin43; Gap junctions; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

RATTUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 39049137027     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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