Postnatal zinc deficiency due to giardiasis disrupts hippocampal and cerebellar development

Angélica González Maciel; Laura Elizabeth Rosas López; Rosa María Romero-Velázquez; Andrea Ramos-Morales; Martha Ponce-Macotela; David Calderón-Guzmán; Francisca Trujillo-Jiménez; Alfonso Alfaro-Rodríguez; Rafael Reynoso-Robles

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012302

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Postnatal zinc deficiency due to giardiasis disrupts hippocampal and cerebellar development

Angélica González Maciel ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: agonzalezmaciel@yahoo.com (AGM); reynosoraf@yahoo.com (RR-R)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1909-9146

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Laura Elizabeth Rosas López,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Rosa María Romero-Velázquez,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Andrea Ramos-Morales,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Martha Ponce-Macotela,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Parasitology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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David Calderón-Guzmán,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Neuroscience, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Francisca Trujillo-Jiménez,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratorio de Pharmacology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud. Mexico City, Mexico
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Alfonso Alfaro-Rodríguez,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Neurosciences, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra”, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Rafael Reynoso-Robles

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: agonzalezmaciel@yahoo.com (AGM); reynosoraf@yahoo.com (RR-R)

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Secretaría de Salud, Mexico City, Mexico
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Postnatal zinc deficiency due to giardiasis disrupts hippocampal and cerebellar development

Angélica González Maciel,
Laura Elizabeth Rosas López,
Rosa María Romero-Velázquez,
Andrea Ramos-Morales,
Martha Ponce-Macotela,
David Calderón-Guzmán,
Francisca Trujillo-Jiménez,
Alfonso Alfaro-Rodríguez,
Rafael Reynoso-Robles

Published: July 1, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012302

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