Co-Therapy of Albendazole and Dexamethasone Reduces Pathological Changes in the Cerebral Parenchyma of Th-1 and Th-2 Dominant Mice Heavily Infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Histopathological and RNA-seq Analyses
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Parasite and Laboratory Animals
2.2. Experimental Infection
2.3. Drug Administration
2.4. Histopathological Examination
2.5. RNA-seq
2.6. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Pathological Changes
3.2. Scoring
3.3. RNA-seq
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Jhan, K.-Y.; Cheng, C.-J.; Jung, S.-M.; Lai, Y.-J.; Chen, K.-Y.; Wang, L.-C. Co-Therapy of Albendazole and Dexamethasone Reduces Pathological Changes in the Cerebral Parenchyma of Th-1 and Th-2 Dominant Mice Heavily Infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Histopathological and RNA-seq Analyses. Biomolecules 2021, 11, 536. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11040536
Jhan K-Y, Cheng C-J, Jung S-M, Lai Y-J, Chen K-Y, Wang L-C. Co-Therapy of Albendazole and Dexamethasone Reduces Pathological Changes in the Cerebral Parenchyma of Th-1 and Th-2 Dominant Mice Heavily Infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Histopathological and RNA-seq Analyses. Biomolecules. 2021; 11(4):536. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11040536
Chicago/Turabian StyleJhan, Kai-Yuan, Chien-Ju Cheng, Shih-Ming Jung, Yi-Jen Lai, Kuang-Yao Chen, and Lian-Chen Wang. 2021. "Co-Therapy of Albendazole and Dexamethasone Reduces Pathological Changes in the Cerebral Parenchyma of Th-1 and Th-2 Dominant Mice Heavily Infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Histopathological and RNA-seq Analyses" Biomolecules 11, no. 4: 536. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11040536