The armadillo: A model for the neuropathy of leprosy and potentially other neurodegenerative diseases

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-24

  Sharma, Rahul ^a,b   Lahiri, Ramanuj ^b   Scollard, David M ^b   Pena, Maria ^a,b   Williams, Diana L ^b   Adams, Linda B ^b   Figarola, John ^b   Truman, Richard W ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPROSY VACCINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARMADILLO; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEPROSY; MORPHOMETRICS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 84872073362     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.010215     Document Type: Review

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