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| Melo,Nadja Rodrigues de; Vilela,Maria Marluce Santos; Jorge Junior,Jacks; Kamei,Katsuhiko; Miyaji,Makoto; Fukushima,Kazutaka; Nishimura,Kazuko; Groeneveld,Philip; Kelly,Steven L.; Taguchi,Hideaki. |
| Declining incidence of oropharyngeal candidosis and opportunistic infections over recent years can be attributed to the use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Infection with C. albicans generally involves adherence and colonization of superficial tissues. During this process, budding yeasts are able to transform to hyphae and penetrate into the deep tissue. Using the biocell tracer system, C. albicans hyphal growth was dynamically observed at the cellular level. Ritonavir was effective in the inhibition of hyphal growth with growth rate of 0.8 mum/min. This study showed the in vitro effect of HIV anti-retroviral drug on the growth rate of the C. albicans hyphae. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Candida; Hyphal; Protease inhibitor. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822006000300006 |
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| Melo,Nadja Rodrigues de; Taguchi,Hideaki; Culhari,Vitoria V.P.; Sano,Ayako; Fukushima,Kazutaka; Miyaji,Makoto; Manning,Nigel; Kelly,Steven L.; Vilela,Marluce S.. |
| This study investigated the prevalence of C. dubliniensis in a Brazilian family with an HIV - infected child. A total of 42 oral isolates were obtained from eight family members. The identification of C. dubliniensis was performed by polymerase chain reactions (PCR) using primers against a specific sequence of the C. dubliniensis cytochrome b gene. Only the HIV-infected child and his grandmother were colonized by C. dubliniensis. In this study C. dubliniensis isolated from the HIV-infected child exhibited high susceptibility for azoles tested with MICs of 0.125 and 0.5 µg/mL for voriconazole and fluconazole, respectively. Accumulation of [³H] fluconazole in C. dubliniensis isolated from the HIV-infected child was slightly reduced in comparison to the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Candida dubliniensis; Antifungal agents; Sterol composition. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822006000300008 |
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| Franco,Luciana de Oliveira; Maia,Rita de Cássia C.; Porto,Ana Lúcia F.; Messias,Arminda Sacconi; Fukushima,Kazutaka; Campos-Takaki,Galba Maria de. |
| Chitin and chitosan were extracted from mycelial biomass of Cunninghamella elegans and the performance for copper, lead and iron biosorption in aqueous solution was evaluated. The growth curve of C. elegans was accomplished by determination of biomass, pH, glucose and nitrogen consumption. Chitin and chitosan were extracted by alkali-acid treatment and the yields were 23.8 and 7.8%, respectively. For the adsorption analysis, the process of heavy uptake metal sorption was evaluated using polysaccharides solutions (1% w/v). The rate of metallic biosorption was dependent upon the concentration and pH of metal solutions, and the best results were observed with pH 4.0. Chitosan showed the highest affinity for copper and chitin for iron adsorption. The results... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cunninghamella elegans; Chitin; Chitosan; Bioremediation; Biosorption. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822004000200013 |
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| Lima,Marcos Antonio Barbosa de; Nascimento,Aline Elesbão do; Souza,Wanderley de; Fukushima,Kazutaka; Campos-Takaki,Galba Maria de. |
| The content of inorganic polyphosphate and the polymeric degree of these compounds were evaluated during the growth of Cunninghamella elegans in medium containing varying orthophosphate (Pi) concentrations. For this purpose, a combination of chemical methods for polyphosphate extraction and ultrastructural cytochemistry were used. The orthophosphate and glucose consumption was also determined during the fungal cultivation. At Pi concentrations of 0.5, 2.5 and 0.0 g/L, the maximum amounts of biomass were 3.18, 3.29 and 0.24 g/L, respectively. During growth the cells accumulated Pi from the medium. At three days of growth the biomass consumed up to 100 and 95% of Pi from the media at initial concentrations of 0.5 and 2.5 g/L, respectively. Polyphosphate was... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Polyphosphate; Accumulation; Ultrastructural cytochemistry; Cunninghamella elegans; Ortophosfate. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822003000400016 |
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