Pathogenesis of candida albicans infections in the alternative chorio-allantoic membrane chicken embryo model resembles systemic murine infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Jacobsen, Ilse D ^a   Große, Katharina ^a   Berndt, Angela ^b   Hube, Bernhard ^a,c  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 22; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GRANULOMA; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TH17 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY;

AVES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MICE;

EID: 79955930427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019741     Document Type: Article

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