PAMPs and host immune response in cryptococcal infection

K Sato, K Kawakami - Medical Mycology Journal, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… anticryptococcal activity through production of nitric oxide. Clin … gamma-producing
Cryptococcus neoformans strain results in … mucin production in the lungs after pulmonary infection …

[HTML][HTML] Chitin recognition via chitotriosidase promotes pathologic type-2 helper T cell responses to cryptococcal infection

DL Wiesner, CA Specht, CK Lee, KD Smith… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… T cells produced in response to infection with the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
… , alternative macrophage activation, mucus and IgE production, and airway obstruction [4]. …

[HTML][HTML] Eosinophils contribute to IL-4 production and shape the T-helper cytokine profile and inflammatory response in pulmonary cryptococcosis

D Piehler, W Stenzel, A Grahnert, J Held… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
… Susceptibility to infection with Cryptococcus neoformans is tightly determined by production
of IL-4. … In addition, IL-13–dependent mucus production by goblet cells, IL-4–dependent IgE …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptococcus gattii alters immunostimulatory potential in response to the environment

K Ueno, Y Otani, N Yanagihara, T Nakamura… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… gattii is also less likely to be recognized compared to Cryptococcus neoformans under in
vivo situations because C. gattii induces lower cytokines production and leukocyte recruitment …

Olfactory mucosa response in guinea pigs following intranasal instillation withCryptococcus neoformans A histological and immunocytochemical study

C Lima, JP Vital - Mycopathologia, 1994 - Springer
… stromal cells and Bowman glands that provide the mucus production. The transition between
the … changes produced. A light and electron microscope study. Lab Invest 1973; 29: 121-33. …

Cryptococcus strains with different pathogenic potentials have diverse protein secretomes

LT Campbell, AR Simonin, C Chen, J Ferdous… - Eukaryotic …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
… species, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, … each Cryptococcus strain, the
two 1-liter cultures produced as … Alcian blue stains mucin and reacts strongly with cryptococcal

Th2 but Not Th1 Immune Bias Results in Altered Lung Functions in a Murine Model of Pulmonary Cryptococcus neoformans Infection

AV Jain, Y Zhang, WB Fields, DA McNamara… - Infection and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
neoformans strain H99 and moderately virulent strain 52D in the same mouse … production
(IL-4, IL-13, and IL-10) and the absence of IFN-γ, systemic IgE production, mucus production or …

Cryptococcus gattii isolates from the British Columbia cryptococcosis outbreak induce less protective inflammation in a murine model of infection than Cryptococcus …

PY Cheng, A Sham, JW Kronstad - Infection and immunity, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cryptococcus neoformans causes approximately one million cases of cryptococcosis per …
bronchovascular infiltrate, and mucus production in the airways is indicated by arrowheads. …

Role of Dectin-2 in the phagocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans by dendritic cells

Y Kitai, K Sato, D Tanno, X Yuan, A Umeki… - Infection and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… defense against cryptococcal infection, although Th2 cytokines and mucin production in the
… In addition, Dectin-2 deficiency reduces cytokine production by macrophages and dendritic …

Methamphetamine enhances Cryptococcus neoformans pulmonary infection and dissemination to the brain

D Patel, GM Desai, S Frases, RJB Cordero… - MBio, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
… sections to better show the cryptococcal cells stained with mucin carmine (indicated with …
neoformans cells produced significantly larger numbers of spots than control cells (P < 0.05) …