Malassezia yeasts produce a collection of exceptionally potent activators of the ah (dioxin) receptor detected in diseased human skin

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2023-2030

  Magiatis, Prokopios ^a,b   Pappas, Periklis ^c   Gaitanis, George ^d   Mexia, Nikitia ^a   Melliou, Eleni ^a,b   Galanou, Maria ^c   Vlachos, Christophoros ^c,d   Stathopoulou, Konstantina ^a   Skaltsounis, Alexios Leandros ^a   Marselos, Marios ^c   Velegraki, Aristea ^a   Denison, Michael S ^b   Bassukas, Ioannis D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; INDIRUBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FOLLICULITIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; YEAST;

EID: 84880332344     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.92     Document Type: Article

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