Ultrastructural analysis of miltefosine-induced surface membrane damage in adult Schistosoma mansoni BH strain worms

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2465-2473

  Bertão, Humberto Gonçalves ^a   Da Silva, Renata Alexandre Ramos ^a   Padilha, Rafael José R ^a   De Azevedo Albuquerque, Mônica Camelo Pessôa ^a   Rádis Baptista, Gandhi ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILTEFOSINE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CELL KILLING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUPTURE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPINE DISEASE; WORM TEGUMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

FUNGI; PROTOZOA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRYPANOSOMA; VERMES;

EID: 84863501861     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2786-5     Document Type: Article

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