The effect of memantine, an antagonist of the NMDA glutamate receptor, in in vitro and in vivo infections by Trypanosoma cruzi

• Higo Fernando Santos Souza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Higo Fernando Santos Souza, Sandra Carla Rocha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Sandra Carla Rocha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Higo Fernando Santos Souza, Sandra Carla Rocha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Flávia Silva Damasceno,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ludmila Nakamura Rapado,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Elisabeth Mieko Furusho Pral,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Claudio Romero Farias Marinho,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Immunoparasitology, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1227-3845

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• Ariel Mariano Silber

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: asilber@usp.br

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps–LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4528-4732

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