Neuroendocrine-immunology of experimental Chagas' disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1153, Issue , 2009, Pages 264-271

  Roggero, Eduardo ^a   Pérez, Ana R ^a   Bottasso, Oscar A ^a   Besedovsky, Hugo O ^b   Del Rey, Adriana ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chagas' disease; Cytokines; Endogenous glucocorticoids; Thymus; Trypanosoma cruzi infection; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HEART INJURY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 60349092929     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03982.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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