Linking Quorum Sensing Regulation and Biofilm Formation by Candida albicans

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 692, Issue , 2011, Pages 219-233

  Deveau, Aurélie ^a   Hogan, Deborah A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Candida albicans; Farnesol; Morphology

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL VIOLET; FARNESOL; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; RESAZURIN; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING;

BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FARNESOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENTIAN VIOLET; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; OXAZINES; QUORUM SENSING; XANTHENES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952198936     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-971-0_16     Document Type: Chapter

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