Precision-cut hamster liver slices as an ex vivo model to study amoebic liver abscess

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-125

  Carranza Rosales, Pilar ^a   Santiago Mauricio, María Guadalupe ^a   Guzmán Delgado, Nancy Elena ^a   Vargas Villarreal, Javier ^a   Lozano Garza, Gerardo ^a   Ventura Juárez, Javier ^b   Balderas Rentería, Isaías ^a   Morán Martínez, Javier ^a   Gandolfi, A Jay ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^b Autonomous University of Aguascalientes Centro de Ciencias Basicas   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amoebic liver abscess; Entamoeba histolytica; Ex vivo model; Hamster; Liver slices; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE 1; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EX VIVO STUDY; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER AMEBIASIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SLICE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAN SPORE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TROPHOZOITE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ION CHANNELS; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77955273417     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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