Kinectics of the pulmonary phase of Schistosoma mansoni in mice treated with dexamethasone Cinética da fase pulmonar do Schistosoma mansoni em camundongos tratados com dexametasona

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Marco Victor Hermeto, Rosilene Siray Bicalho, Alan Lane de Melo, Leógenes Horácio Pereira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1990
• Subjects: Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis; Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoids; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Hora; The Portal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651990000300004; https://doaj.org/article/cb74e737b57b4b3d8060f5fe06346b2b

In the experimental schistosomiasis mansoni glucocorticoids cause a reduction in the worm burden when administered in the week of infection or, the longest, at the next week. In order to determinate the probable(s) site(s) of reduction of the worm burden, mice were infected with cercariae of LE stra...