Muscular strength decrease in Rattus norvegicus experimentally infected by Toxocara canis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-75

  Chieffi, Pedro P ^a,b   Aquino, Renata T R ^a   Paschoalotti, Maria A ^a   Ribeiro, Manoel Carlos S A ^a   Nasello, Antonia G ^a  

^a FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS DA SANTA CASA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Muscular strength; Rattus norvegicus; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; RAT; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

EID: 66149088078     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652009000200003     Document Type: Article

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