Linking fungal morphogenesis with virulence

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 127-137

  Rooney, Peggy J ^a   Klein, Bruce S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROMERCURIBENZENESULFONIC ACID; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOTYPE; MOULD; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

HUMANS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOSES; VIRULENCE;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BLASTOMYCES; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036202213     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2002.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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