Calcineurin is essential for Candida albicans survival in serum and virulence

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 422-430

  Blankenship, Jill R ^a   Wormley, Floyd L ^a   Boyce, Molly K ^a   Schell, Wiley A ^a   Filler, Scott G ^b   Perfect, John R ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St John's Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; UMBILICAL VEIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CALCINEURIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTATION; TEMPERATURE; UMBILICAL VEINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0037805741     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.3.422-430.2003     Document Type: Article

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