Novel Role for Albumin in Innate Immunity: Serum Albumin Inhibits the Growth of Blastomyces dermatitidis Yeast Form In Vitro

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6648-6652

  Giles, Steven ^a   Czuprynski, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT YEAST DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SERUM ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMYCES; CATTLE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; RATS; SERUM; SERUM ALBUMIN; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 0242381184     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6648-6652.2003     Document Type: Article

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