Phagocytic and candidacidal activities of macrophages from suckling and adult mice pretreated with concanavalin-A

Medical Mycology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 393-397

  Moresco, T R ^a   Gaziri, L C J ^a   Yasumoto, Y ^a   Felipe, Ionice ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Concanavalin A; Peritoneal macrophages; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; MANNAN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; OPSONIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEATH; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; IMMATURITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PROTECTION; SUCKLING; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONCANAVALIN A; LECTINS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 0036668552     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/mmy.40.4.393.397     Document Type: Article

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