Effects of AV119, a natural sugar from avocado, on Malassezia furfur invasiveness and on the expression of HBD-2 and cytokines in human keratinocytes

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 912-919

  Donnarumma, Giovanna ^a   Buommino, Elisabetta ^a   Baroni, Adone ^a   Auricchio, Lucia ^a   Filippis, Anna De ^a   Cozza, Valentina ^b   Msika, Philippe ^c   Piccardi, Nathalie ^c   Tufano, Maria Antonietta ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Centre R and D   (France)

Author keywords

defensin; Cytokines; Furfur; Invasiveness; Malassezia; Natural sugars

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA DEFENSIN 2; COSMETIC; CYTOKINE; FRUCTOSE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AVOCADO; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; KERATINOCYTE; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN FLORA; SKIN PENETRATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TIME; YEAST CELL;

BETA-DEFENSINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MALASSEZIA; PERSEA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 35348887127     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2007.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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