Suppression by Candida albicans β-glucan of cytokine release from activated human monocytes and from T cells in the presence of monocytes

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 710-713

  Nakagawa, Yukari ^a   Ohno, Naohito ^b   Murai, Toshimi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MONOCYTE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLUCANS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MONOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037442771     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368334     Document Type: Article

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