The RIM101 signal transduction pathway regulates Candida albicans virulence during experimental keratomycosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4668-4676

  Yuan, Xiaoyong ^a   Mitchell, Bradley M ^a   Hua, Xia ^a   Davis, Dana A ^b   Wilhelmus, Kirk R ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; KERATOMYCOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHR1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIM101 GENE; RIM13 GENE; RIM20 GENE; RIM8 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CANDIDIASIS; CORNEA; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KERATITIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RIM101 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CORNEA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HYPHAE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KERATITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77957329714     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4726     Document Type: Article

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