High fat diet has a prominent effect upon the course of chronic schistosomiasis mansoni in mice

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 608-613

  de Barros Alencar, Alba Cristina Miranda ^a   Neves, Renata Heisler ^b   Águila, Márcia Barbosa ^c   Mandarim de Lacerda, Carlos Alberto ^c   Gomes, Delir Corrêa ^b   Machado Silva, José Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Biologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Chronic phase; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

CERCARIA (TREMATODE GENUS); MURINAE; MUS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 70249142054     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762009000400013     Document Type: Article

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