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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Parasitology Research Volume 2012, Article ID 275436, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/275436 Research Article Interactions between Leishmania braziliensis and Macrophages Are Dependent on the Cytoskeleton and Myosin Va Elisama Azevedo,1, 2 Leandro Teixeira Oliveira,3 Ana Karina Castro Lima,1, 2 1, 4 ´ 1 ˆ 3 Rodrigo Terra, Patrıcia Maria Lourenc¸o Dutra, and Veronica P. Salerno 1 Laboratorio de Imunologia e Bioquımica de Protozoarios, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, ´ ´ ´ FCM, UERJ, Avenida Professor Manuel de Abreu 444 5◦ andar. Vila Isabel, 20550-170 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Programa de Pos-Graduac¸ao em Microbiologia Medica, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas, UERJ, 20550-170 Rio de Janerio, RJ, Brazil ´ ˜ ´ ˆ ´ 3 Departamento Biociencias, Escola de Educac¸ao Fısica e Desportos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-599 Rio de Janerio, ˆ ˜ ´ RJ, Brazil 4 Programa de Pos-Graduac¸ao em Biodinamica do Movimento, EEFD, UFRJ, 21941-599 Rio de Janerio, RJ, Brazil ´ ˜ ˆ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Patrıcia Maria Lourenc¸o Dutra, pmldutra@ Received 22 February 2012; Revised 6 May 2012; Accepted 7 May 2012 Academic Editor: Barbara Papadopoulou Copyright © 2012 Elisama Azevedo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative