Melatonin reduces the severity of experimental amoebiasis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  França Botelho, Aline C ^a,b   França, Juliana L ^b,c   Oliveira, Fabrício M S ^a   Franca, Eduardo L ^d   Honário França, Adenilda C ^d   Caliari, Marcelo V ^a   Gomes, Maria A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Centro Universitrio Do Planalto de Arax   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HAMSTER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOPHAGOCYTOSIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; RAT; RISK REDUCTION; TROPHOZOITE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA; RATTUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; MALE; MELATONIN; MICROSCOPY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RODENT DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955102849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-62     Document Type: Article

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