Trypanosoma cruzi: Orchiectomy and dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in infected rats

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-254

  Filipin, Marina Del Vecchio ^a   Brazão, Vânia ^a   Caetano, Leony Cristina ^a   Santello, Fabricia Helena ^a   Toldo, Míriam Paula Alonso ^a   Caetano, Luana Naiara ^a   do Prado Jr , José Clóvis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); Histopathology; Interferon gamma (IFN ); Nitric oxide (NO); Orchiectomy; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; NITRIC OXIDE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; HEART; INTERFERON TYPE II; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; ORCHIECTOMY; PARASITEMIA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 53249103550     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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