Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6291505 | Experimental Parasitology | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Trypanosoma evansi is the causative agent of an important disease that affects a wide variety of domestic and wild mammals. ⺠Nitric oxide has many physiological effects in body animals and human. ⺠NO level in serum, indicated by nitrite/nitrate concentration, was higher in infected rats with T. evansi. ⺠Serum AOPP level was higher in infected rats by parasite, i.e. protein oxidation. ⺠An increase in antioxidant enzyme activity occur in infection by T. evansi caused by oxidative damage.
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Authors
Aleksandro S. Da Silva, Francine C. Paim, Roberto C.V. Santos, Manuela B. Sangoi, Rafael N. Moresco, Sonia T.A. Lopes, Jeandre A. Jaques, Jucimara Baldissarelli, Vera Maria Morsch, Silvia G. Monteiro,