Ultrastructural changes in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells attenuated by gamma irradiation

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 397-402

  Demicheli, Marina Cortez ^a   Goes, Alfredo Miranda ^b   De Andrade, Antero Silva Ribeiro ^a  

^a CENTRO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DA TECNOLOGIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Gamma irradiation; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST CELL;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL VACCINES; GAMMA RAYS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 34547925586     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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