Cryptococcal cell morphology affects host cell interactions and pathogenicity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Okagaki, Laura H ^a   Strain, Anna K ^a   Nielsen, Judith N ^b   Charlier, Caroline ^c   Baltes, Nicholas J ^a   Chrétien, Fabrice ^c,d   Heitman, Joseph H ^e   Dromer, Françoise ^c   Nielsen, Kirsten N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DAUGHTER CELL; DNA DETERMINATION; GIANT CELL; HOST CELL; MIXED INFECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOUSE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYPLOIDY; TITAN CELL; A J MOUSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLOIDIES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77954677679     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000953     Document Type: Article

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