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Vitamin D overload and experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection : parasitologic...

l. Six groups of 45-day-old, 23.0 & 1.7 g, female Balb/c mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with 63, 252, 440, 630, 2520 or 6300 I.U. of vitamin D for 6 days. A seventh group was inoculated with saline. Each group consisted of 30 animals. 2. All animals inoculated with the doses of 2520 and 6300 and 70% of mice which received 630 I.U. of vitamin D died 21 days after the first administration of the vitamin. ...

The effect of iron deficiency and iron overload on the evolution of chagas dise...

l. CFW mice were fed either on control diet or on iron-deficient diet. 2. After 5 months the mice were infected with CL, Y or YuYu strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. 3. On the fifth day after the infection, the mice on control diet were divided in three groups: one group remained as controls, two groups were injected either with desferrioxamine or iron-dextran. 4. The severity of the disease was evaluated by parasite...

Lactobacillus delbrueckii UFV-H2b20 induces type 1 cytokine production by mouse...

The effect of iron nutritional status on Trypanosoma cruzi infection in germfre...

1. Conventional (CV) and gnotobiotic (GN) female CFW mice were infected with the Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. 2. After infection, both CV and GN groups received injections of iron-dextran or desferrioxamine. Non-injected mice served as controls. 3. The parasitemia was more intense in iron-dextran-treated mice. 4. The iron levels in serum, liver, and spleen were: (a) not decreased by desferrioxamine and (b) in...

American trypanosomiasis (chagas' disease) in conventional and germfree rats an...