The histopathology of Candida albicans invasion in neonatal rat tissues and in the human blood-brain barrier in culture revealed by light, scanning transmission and immunoelectron microscopy

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 10-12, 2006, Pages 1029-1041

  Lossinsky, Albert S ^a   Jong, A ^b   Fiala, M ^c   Mukhtar, M ^d   Buttle, K F ^e   Ingram, M ^a  

^a HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Candida albicans

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; INTERNALIZATION; KIDNEY INFECTION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYOSITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE CANDIDIASIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPLEEN DISEASE; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS;

EID: 33746703355     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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