Schistosoma mansoni in mice: modulation of granulomatous response after reinfection and chemotherapeutic treatment Schistosoma mansoni em camundongos: modulação da resposta granulomatosa pós reinfecção e tratamento quimioterápico

• Main Authors: Paulo Marcos Z. Coelho, Pedro Raso, Rômulo Teixeira de Mello, Nivaldo H. Toppa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1994
• Subjects: Sçhistosoma mansoni; Granuloma; Tratamento quimioterápico; Modulação da resposta granulomatosa; Schistosoma mansoni; Chemotherapeutic treatment; Modulation of granulomatous response; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c37ac91dc5424de293e90cd7a9df5753

Mice previously infected with Schistosoma mansoni, and cured by specific treatment (400mg/kg oxamniquine, p. o.) in the chronic phase of the disease, were reinfected 20 days after treatment to assess their capacityfor modulation ofthe granulomatous response. Histopathologic examination of the animal...