Current applications of oogram methodology in experimental schistosomiasis; Fecundity of female Schistosoma mansoni and egg release in the intestine of AKR/J mice following immunomodulatory treatment with pentoxifylline

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-124

  Mati, V L T ^a   Melo, A L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOGRAM METHODOLOGY; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PORTAL VEIN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITOLOGY; PENTOXIFYLLINE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84877953676     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: 14752697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X12000144     Document Type: Article

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