Trypanosoma cruzi in the chicken model: Chagas-like heart disease in the absence of parasitism

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Teixeira, Antonio R L ^a   Gomes, Clever ^a   Nitz, Nadjar ^a   Sousa, Alessandro O ^a   Alves, Rozeneide M ^a   Guimaro, Maria C ^a   Cordeiro, Ciro ^a   Bernal, Francisco M ^a   Rosa, Ana C ^a   Hejnar, Jiri ^b   Leonardecz, Eduardo ^a   Hecht, Mariana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8ALPHA ANTIGEN; CD8DELTA ANTIGEN; CD8GAMMA ANTIGEN; DYSTROPHIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CD8 ANTIGEN; CIRCULAR DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; KINETOPLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITISM; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; ANTIGENS, CD8; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HEART FAILURE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 79953773335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001000     Document Type: Article

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