Taenia crassiceps infection disrupts estrous cycle and reproductive behavior in BALB/c female mice

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-145

  Arteaga Silva, Marcela ^a   Vargas Villavicencio, José Antonio ^b   Vigueras Villaseñor, Rosa María ^c   Rodríguez Dorantes, Mauricio ^b   Morales Montor, Jorge ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Estrous cycle; Infection; Parasite; Sexual behavior; Taenia crassiceps

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; STEROID;

FLATWORM; PARASITIC DISEASE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HOST; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEROID ANALYSIS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIASIS; TISSUE INJURY; UTERUS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

EID: 57849139695     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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