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Hepatocyte metaplasia in experimental chagasic pancreatitis: preliminary report
V M Santos1, M A Lima, M Cabrine-Santos
1Departament of Internal Medicine, Triângulo Mineiro Medical School, Uberaba, MG, Brazil. parasito_fmtm@mednet.com.br
Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical
|July 19, 2001
Abstract:
Beginning the study of chronic pathologic changes in pancreas of hamsters experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi Vic strain, hepatocyte metaplasia was observed in one animal from infected group. This is the first report of oncocytes in Chagas' disease, which could be due to aberrant regenerative response to pancreas inflammatory process.