Fluconazole downregulates metallothionein expression and increases copper cytotoxicity in Microsporum canis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 299, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 688-692

  Uthman, Aumaid ^a   Rezaie, Sassan ^c   Dockal, Michael ^b   Ban, Jozef ^b   Söltz Szöts, Josef ^a   Tschachler, Erwin ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Copper toxicity; Dermatophytes; Fluconazole; Metallothionein; Microsporum canis

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ERGOSTEROL; FLUCONAZOLE; METALLOTHIONEIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; METALLOTHIONEIN GENE; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG SYNERGISM; FLUCONAZOLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CANIS; FUNGI; MICROSPORUM; MICROSPORUM CANIS;

EID: 0036930586     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02724-9     Document Type: Article

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