Chronic infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes myenteric neuroplasticity of the jejunum in rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 3-8

  Hermes Uliana, Catchia ^a   Pereira Severi, Letícia Sarturi ^a   Luerdes, Raphaela Bretas ^a   Franco, Cássia Luiza Marins ^a   da Silva, Aristeu Vieira ^a   Araújo, Eduardo José de Almeida ^a   Sant'Ana, Débora de Mello Gonçales ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE PARANAENSE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; Morphometry; Neural plasticity; Small intestine; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GIEMSA STAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; JEJUNUM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURON ATROPHY; NEURON HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPOROGENESIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; JEJUNUM; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 79551508521     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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