Immortalized human brain endothelial cell line HCMEC/D3 as a model of the blood-brain barrier facilitates in vitro studies of central nervous system infection by cryptococcus neoformans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1803-1807

  Vu, Kiem ^a   Weksler, Babette ^b   Romero, Ignacio ^c   Couraud, Pierre Olivier ^d   Gelli, Angie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 72449202243     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00240-09     Document Type: Article

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