Natural Schistosoma mansoni infection in the wild reservoir Nectomys squamipes leads to excessive lipid droplet accumulation in hepatocytes in the absence of liver functional impairment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Amaral, Katia B ^a   Silva, Thiago P ^a   Malta, Kassia K ^a   Carmo, Lívia A S ^a   Dias, Felipe F ^a   Almeida, Mariana R ^a,c   Andrade, Gustavo F S ^a   Martins, Jefferson S ^a   Pinho, Roberto R ^a   Costa Neto, Socrates F ^b   Gentile, Rosana ^b   Melo, Rossana C N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; FAT DROPLET; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FATTY LIVER; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FUNCTION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NECTOMYS SQUAMIPES; NONHUMAN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RAT; RODENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; HUMAN; LIVER; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FATTY LIVER; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIPID DROPLETS; LIVER; RATS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 84996558278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166979     Document Type: Article

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