Figure 6.
Representative photomicrographs of histological sections of heart tissue of mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. C57BL/6 mice were infected or not with the VL-10 strain of T. cruzi and fed, or not, with high-fat diet. In addition, some animals were treated with simvastatin and cardiac tissue extracted at 30 days after infection to processing and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. Scale bar = 50 mm.