Acute Chagas Disease Induces Cerebral Microvasculopathy in Mice

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Nisimura, Lindice Mitie ^a   Estato, Vanessa ^a   de Souza, Elen Mello ^a   Reis, Patricia A ^a   Lessa, Marcos Adriano ^a   Castro Faria Neto, Hugo Caire ^a   de Pereira, Mirian Claudia Souza ^a   Tibiriçá, Eduardo ^a   Garzoni, Luciana Ribeiro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LEUKOCYTE ROLLING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROANGIOPATHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITEMIA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; MICE; MICROCIRCULATION; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84905495065     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002998     Document Type: Article

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