Global metabolomic profiling of acute myocarditis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi infection.

• Main Authors: Núria Gironès (Author), Sofía Carbajosa (Author), Néstor A Guerrero (Author), Cristina Poveda (Author), Carlos Chillón-Marinas (Author), Manuel Fresno (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi infection, being cardiomyopathy the more frequent manifestation. New chemotherapeutic drugs are needed but there are no good biomarkers for monitoring treatment efficacy. There is growing evidence linking immune response and metabolism in inflammatory pr...