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Vimentin and Anti Vimentin Antibodies in Chagas' Disease

Nascimento, Marilda Savoia; Stolf, Anna Maria Simonsen; Andrade Junior, Heitor Franco de; Pandey, Ramendra Pati; Umezawa, Eufrosina Setsu.
Arq. bras. cardiol; 110 (4), 2018
Abstract Background: Vimentin is a main structural protein of the cell, a component of intermediate cell filaments and immersed in cytoplasm. Vimentin is mimicked by some bacterial proteins and anti-vimentin antibodies occur in autoimmune cardiac disease, as rheumatic fever. In this work we studied vime...
Análisis de Varianza, Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios/análisis, Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios/inmunología, Antígenos de Protozoos/análisis, Antígenos de Protozoos/inmunología, Células Cultivadas, Enfermedad de Chagas/inmunología, Ensayo de Inmunoadsorción Enzimática/métodos, Técnica del Anticuerpo Fluorescente Indirecta/métodos, Macaca mulatta, Valores de Referencia, Estadísticas no Paramétricas, Trypanosoma cruzi/inmunología, Vimentina/inmunología
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Complement system contributes to modulate the infectivity of susceptible TcI strains of Trypanosoma cruzi

Arroyo-Olarte, Ruben D; Martínez, Ignacio; Cruz-Rivera, Mayra; Mendlovic, Fela; Espinoza, Bertha.
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 113 (4), 2018
BACKGROUND Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite and an etiological agent of Chagas disease. There is a wide variability in the clinical outcome of its infection, ranging from asymptomatic individuals to those with chronic fatal mega syndromes. Both parasite and host factors, as well as their interpl...
Antígenos de Protozoos/análisis, Western Blotting, Chlorocebus aethiops, Enfermedad de Chagas/parasitología, Células Vero
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