Taenia crassiceps: A secretion-substance of low molecular weight leads to disruption and apoptosis of seminiferous epithelium cells in male mice

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 184-191

  Zepeda, Nadia ^a   Copitin, Natalia ^a   Solano, Sandra ^b   Fernández, Ana M ^b   Tato, Patricia ^b   Molinari, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cysticerci; Germ cells; Leydig cells; Mice; Secretion substance; Seminiferous tubules; Sertoli cells; Taenia crassiceps; Testis; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; TAENIA CRASSICEPS SUBSTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GERM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIASIS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASCITIC FLUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; TESTIS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

MUS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

EID: 79956139754     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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