Wild-type Drosophila melanogaster as an alternative model system for investigating the pathogenicity of Candida albicans

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 504-514

  Glittenberg, Marcus T ^a   Silas, Sukrit ^a,b   MacCallum, Donna M ^c   Gow, Neil A R ^c   Ligoxygakis, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL TIME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 79959628056     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.006619     Document Type: Article

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