Chagas disease, a parasitic infection caused by the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects the poorest populations, living in remote, rural areas and urban slums. Although this drug is effective against Chagas disease it presents a number of serious side effects. In residents of high Andean areas with megacolon it can lead to cardiomyopathies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dietary supplementation with L-glutamine may alleviate some of these symptoms because of its previously observed anti-inflammatory properties. We studied two groups of T. cruzi-infected mice receiving treatment with nifurtimox. One group was fed the standard diet, while the other group’s diet was supplemented with Glutamine. We found that Glutamine supplementation increases body weight (p<0.001), decreases heart-mass-to-body-mass ratio (p<0.001), and decreases the number of amastigotes present in...

Chagas disease, a parasitic infection caused by the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects the poorest populations, living in remote, rural areas and urban slums. Although this drug is effective against Chagas disease it presents a number of serious side effects. In residents of high Andean areas with megacolon it can lead to cardiomyopathies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dietary supplementation with L-glutamine may alleviate some of these symptoms because of its previously observed anti-inflammatory properties. We studied two groups of T. cruzi-infected mice receiving treatment with nifurtimox. One group was fed the standard diet, while the other group’s diet was supplemented with Glutamine. We found that Glutamine supplementation increases body weight (p<0.001), decreases heart-mass-to-body-mass ratio (p<0.001), and decreases the number of amastigotes present in...

Chagas disease, a parasitic infection caused by the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects the poorest populations, living in remote, rural areas and urban slums. Although this drug is effective against Chagas disease it presents a number of serious side effects. In residents of high Andean areas with megacolon it can lead to cardiomyopathies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dietary supplementation with L-glutamine may alleviate some of these symptoms because of its previously observed anti-inflammatory properties. We studied two groups of T. cruzi-infected mice receiving treatment with nifurtimox. One group was fed the standard diet, while the other group’s diet was supplemented with Glutamine. We found that Glutamine supplementation increases body weight (p<0.001), decreases heart-mass-to-body-mass ratio (p<0.001), and decreases the number of amastigotes present in...

Se determinó el efecto de Lepidium meyenii (maca) ecotipo roja en lamemoria espacial y en niveles (de concentración en el tejido cerebral) demalondialdehído (MDA) de Rattus rattus var. albinus hembras, irradiadaspor las ondas de teléfonos móviles de segunda generación con llamadascontestadas durante 30 minutos por 7 días. Fueron sometidas 36especímenes de 200 – 250 g de peso, de 3 meses de edad, que fueronovariectomizadas 80 días antes de irradiarlas y de iniciar el tratamientocon estrógenos y maca por dos meses Se realizó la prueba del LaberintoAcuático de Morris (LAM) para determinar la memoria espacial, antes dela ovariectomía y después de la irradiación. Cinco de seis gruposcompuestos por 6 especímenes estudiados fueron ovariectomizados, deéstos últimos un grupo fue el blanco, dos grupos recibieron estrógenos endosis de 200ug/kg p.c. pero a uno se les irradió po...

Chagas disease, a parasitic infection caused by the protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects the poorest populations, living in remote, rural areas and urban slums. Although this drug is effective against Chagas disease it presents a number of serious side effects. In residents of high Andean areas with megacolon it can lead to cardiomyopathies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dietary supplementation with L-glutamine may alleviate some of these symptoms because of its previously observed anti-inflammatory properties. We studied two groups of T. cruzi-infected mice receiving treatment with nifurtimox. One group was fed the standard diet, while the other group’s diet was supplemented with Glutamine. We found that Glutamine supplementation increases body weight (p<0.001), decreases heart-mass-to-body-mass ratio (p<0.001), and decreases the number of amastigotes present in...