Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Dorsal Skin of Hamsters: a Useful Model for the Screening of Antileishmanial Drugs

Traditionally, hamsters are experimentally inoculated in the snout or the footpad. However in these sites an ulcer not always occurs, measurement of lesion size is a hard procedure and animals show difficulty to eat, breathe and move because of the lesion. In order to optimize the hamster model for...

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Main Authors: Robledo, Sara M., Carrillo, Lina M., Daza, Alejandro, Restrepo, Adriana M., Muñoz, Diana L., Tobón, Jairo, Murillo, Javier D., López, Anderson, Ríos, Carolina, Mesa, Carol V., Upegui, Yulieth A., Valencia-Tobón, Alejandro, Mondragón-Shem, Karina, RodrÍguez, Berardo, Vélez, Iván D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: MyJove Corporation 2012
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Immunology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671841/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22546739
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3791/3533
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