Evans blue staining reveals vascular leakage associated with focal areas of host-parasite interaction in brains of pigs infected with Taenia solium.

Evans blue staining reveals vascular leakage associated with focal areas of host-parasite interaction in brains of pigs infected with Taenia solium.

Cysticidal drug treatment of viable Taenia solium brain parenchymal cysts leads to an acute pericystic host inflammatory response and blood brain barrier breakdown (BBB), commonly resulting in seizures. Naturally infected pigs, untreated or treated one time with praziquantel were sacrificed at 48 hr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miguel Marzal, Cristina Guerra-Giraldez, Adriana Paredes, Carla Cangalaya, Andrea Rivera, Armando E Gonzalez, Siddhartha Mahanty, Hector H Garcia, Theodore E Nash, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4051593?pdf=render

Internet

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4051593?pdf=render

Similar Items