The toxic effects of piperine against Trypanosoma cruzi: Ultrastructural alterations and reversible blockage of cytokinesis in epimastigote forms

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1059-1067

  Freire De Lima, Leonardo ^a   Ribeiro, Tatiana Santana ^b   Rocha, Gustavo Miranda ^a   Brandão, Bruno Alves ^a   Romeiro, Alexandre ^a   Mendonça Previato, Lucia ^a   Previato, José Osvaldo ^a   De Lima, Marco Edilson Freire ^b   De Carvalho, Técia Maria Ulisses ^a   Heise, Norton ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; PACLITAXEL; PIPERINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIMASTIGOTE; FLAGELLUM; KINETOPLAST; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; BENZODIOXOLES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINESIS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITRIC OXIDE; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PIPERIDINES; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MURINAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VINCA;

EID: 41549149054     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0876-9     Document Type: Article

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