Trypanosoma cruzi: Serum levels of nitric oxide and expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in myocardium and spleen of dogs in the acute stage of infection with metacyclic or blood trypomastigotes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-82

  Vieira, Paula Melo de Abreu ^a   Francisco, Amanda Fortes ^a   Souza, Sheler Martins de ^a   Malaquias, Luiz Cosme Cotta ^b   Reis, Alexandre Barbosa ^a   Giunchetti, Rodolfo Cordeiro ^a   Veloso, Vanja Maria ^a   Lana, Marta de ^a   Tafuri, Washington Luiz ^a   Carneiro, Cláudia Martins ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE VALE DO RIO DOCE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood trypomastigotes (BT); Chagas disease; Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS); Metacyclic trypomastigotes (MT); Nitric oxide (NO); Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART MUSCLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PARASITEMIA; RABBITS; SPLEEN; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 57149094002     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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