Capillary damage in skeletal muscle in advanced Chagas' disease patients

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 364-368

  Torres, Sonia H ^a   Finol, Héctor J ^b   Montes De Oca, María ^c   Vásquez, Francia ^c   Puigbó, Juan J ^c   Loyo, José G ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; PERICYTE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 4143079099     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1107-7     Document Type: Article

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