Candida albicans and saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall mannans produce fever in rats: Role of nitric oxide and cytokines

Life Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2247-2256

  Ataoglu, Haluk ^a   Dogan, M D ^a   Mustafa, Ferhat ^a   Akarsu, Eyup S ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fever; IFN ; IL 1 ; Indomethacin; Nitric oxide; Prostaglandins; Rat; TNF ; Yeast mannans

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MANNAN; MANNOSIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FEVER; MALE; MANNANS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034703514     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(00)00804-3     Document Type: Article

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