Environmental dimensionality controls the interaction of phagocytes with the pathogenic fungi Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0138-0151

  Behnsen, Judith ^a   Narang, Priyanka ^b   Hasenberg, Mike ^b   Gunzer, Frank ^c   Bilitewski, Ursula ^b   Klippel, Nina ^b   Rohde, Manfred ^b   Brock, Matthias ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a   Gunzer, Matthias ^b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN 583; PHOTOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FUNGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LIVER ABSCESS; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; YEAST; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; DENDRITIC CELL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 33847334228     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030013     Document Type: Article

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