TABLE 2.

Therapeutic schemes ameliorate fibrosis and inflammation in heart tissues of chronically T. cruzi-infected mice

Parameter	Mean value for treatment group ± SEa
	NI	Veh	PTX	Bz	Bz+PTX
FN+ area (%)	17 ± 0.5	43 ± 1.5 ***	25.3 ± 1.2 ###	15.7 ± 1.1 ###	22.3 ± 1.7 ###
Inflammation (no. of cells/100 fields)	0.5 ± 0.3	1,258 ± 138 ***	816 ± 44 #	517 ± 67 #	578 ± 124 #

^a***, P < 0.001 (for comparison of vehicle-treated T. cruzi-infected mice with NI mice). #, P < 0.05; ###, P < 0.001 (for comparison of T. cruzi-infected mice administered PTX, Bz, or Bz-plus-PTX treatment with Veh-injected infected mice).