Activity of cholinesterases and adenosine deaminase in blood and serum of rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 385-391

  da Silva, A S ^a   Pimentel, V C ^a   Fiorenza, A M ^a   FrancA R T ^a   Tonin, A A ^a   Jaques, J A ^a   Leal, C A M ^a   da Silva, C B ^a   Morsch, V ^a   Schetinger, M R C ^a   Lopes, S T A ^a   Monteiro, S G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; CHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SERUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHOLINESTERASES; HEART; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80052899911     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1364859411Y.0000000026     Document Type: Article

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