Multiple organ dysfunction in congenital murine toxoplasmosis

Tokai Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 53-63

  Stahl, Walter ^a   Sekiguchi, Masaki ^a   Kaneda, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital murine toxoplasmosis; Multiple organ dysfunction; Wasting

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CACHEXIA; CALCIFICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPLENOMEGALY; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPLEEN; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 4544286653     PISSN: 03850005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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