Dehydroepiandrosterone increases resistance to experimental infection by Trypanosoma cruzi

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 238-243

  Santos, Carla Domingues ^a   Toldo, Míriam Paula Alonso ^a   Santello, Fabrícia Helena ^a   Filipin, Marina Del Vecchio ^a   Brazão, Vânia ^a   do Prado Júnior, José Clóvis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dehydroepiandrosterone; Interferon gamma; Interleukin 2; Nitric oxide; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PRASTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 42449139801     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.01.039     Document Type: Article

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