Objective: Analyze sex hormone's influence during Chagas´ Disease.
Methods: Male and female BALB/c mice were divided into six groups, four experimental (sham, orchiectomized, orchiectomized and supplemented with estradiol, orchiectomized supplemented with testosterone, oophorectomized, oophorectomized and supplemented with estradiol, and oophorectomized and supplemented with testosterone), and two control (healthy and intraperitoneally with T. cruzi strain NINOA infected).
Background: There are only two anti-trypanocidal drugs available, both have a lot of side effects. This is the pioneer study designed to evaluate the effect in -infected mice and macrophages.
Methods: was administered in vivo, and in vitro (120μL/mL; 200 μL/mL; 500 μL/mL; 852 μL/mL) as prophylaxis, and treatment.