The RGS protein Crg2 is required for establishment and progression of murine pulmonary cryptococcosis

Medical Mycology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 263-275

  Whittington, Amy ^a   Wang, Ping ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

and fungal virulence; Cryptococcal regulators of G protein signaling; cytokine production; host response; macrophage interaction

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYTOKINE; PHEROMONE; RGS2 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG MYCOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICE; RGS PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 79952688710     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2010.512618     Document Type: Article

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