The effect of chronic ingestion of ethanol on modulation of granulomatous inflammation in experimental schistosomiasis in mice.
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1993
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We studied the role of ethanol on the modulation of liver granulomata around Schistosoma mansoni eggs in mice. Albino mice, receiving 7% ethanol as the sole drinking liquid, at 60 and 90 days post-infection, presented smaller granulomata than controls did, when sacrificed at 120 days post-infection. No differences in diameters could observed, when ethanol was given 4 months before up to 120 days after infection. The results suggested that modulation of schistosomose granulomata by ethanol ingestion varies with time and duration of drug consumption.
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Schistosomiasis mansoni, Ethanol, Modulation of granulomatous inflammation
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CASTRO, L. P. F. de et al. The effect of chronic ingestion of ethanol on modulation of granulomatous inflammation in experimental schistosomiasis in mice. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, v. 35, p. 391-394, 1993. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0036-46651993000500001&script=sci_arttext>. Acesso em: 20 fev. 2015.