Effects of neospora caninum infection at mid-gestation on placenta in a pregnant mouse model

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1017-1020

  Lopez Perez I C ^a   Collantes Fernandez E ^a   Rojo Montejo, S ^a   Navarro Lozano, V ^a   Risco Castillo, V ^a   Perez Perez V ^b   Pereira Bueno, J ^b   Ortega Mora, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS RESORPTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERPHASE; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; SPLEEN; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; FETUS DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL RESORPTION; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOSPORA; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 77958171656     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2347.1     Document Type: Article

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