Cellular apoptosis: An alternative mechanism of action for caspofungin against Candida glabrata [PDF]
Current Medical Mycology, 2019 Background and Purpose: Although the mechanism of action for echinocandins is known, the physiological mechanisms by which these antifungal agents cause cell death via the classical apoptotic pathways are not well-defined yet. Regarding this, the present
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Medication Complications in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. [PDF]
, 2017 The need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy is a marker of disease severity for which multiple medications are required. The therapy causes physiologic changes that impact drug pharmacokinetics.
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Management of a case of Candida albicans endogenous endophthalmitis with intravitreal caspofungin
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017 We report a case of Candida albicans endogenous endophthalmitis treated with intravitreal caspofungin. The patient was a known case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia on chemotherapy and presented to us with features suggestive of endogenous endophthalmitis.
Harshali Manish Yadav +3 more
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Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are highly conserved in eukaryotic organisms. In pathogenic fungi, their activities were assigned to different physiological functions including drug adaptation and resistance.
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An on-line solid phase extraction procedure for the routine quantification of caspofungin by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Extensive sets of data are required to investigate the potential use of a therapeutic drug monitoring with individualization of dosage of the antimycotic compound caspofungin.
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Caspofungin Treatment of Aspergillus fumigatus Results in ChsG-Dependent Upregulation of Chitin Synthesis and the Formation of Chitin-Rich Microcolonies [PDF]
, 2015 Date of Acceptance: 23/07/2015 We thank Gillian Milne for help with electron microscopy, Sophie M. Schäfer for pilot experiments, and Emilia Mellado for strains. All authors acknowledge financial support of Gilead Sciences through Ph.D.
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The Candida albicans transcription factor Cas5 couples stress responses, drug resistance and cell cycle regulation [PDF]
, 2017 We thank Cowen lab members for helpful discussions. We also thank David Rogers (University of Tennessee) for sharing microarray analysis of the CAS5 homozygous mutant, and Li Ang (University of Macau) for assistance in optimizing the ChIP-Seq experiments.
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The Fungal Cell Wall : Structure, Biosynthesis, and Function [PDF]
, 2017 N.G. is funded by the Wellcome Trust via a senior investigator award and a strategic award and by the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology. C.M. acknowledges the support of the Wellcome Trust and the MRC. N.G. and C.M.
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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2012 Systemic fungal infections have high morbidity and mortality rates in neonates, especially neonates with an extremely low birth weight (ELBW). Here, we describe a 21-day-old ELBW female infant with an amphotericin B-unresponsive congenital Candida ...
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Caspofungin-induced β(1,3)-glucan exposure in Candida albicans is driven by increased chitin levels
mBio, 2023 To successfully induce disease, Candida albicans must effectively evade the host immune system. One mechanism used by C. albicans to achieve this is to mask immunogenic β(1,3)-glucan epitopes within its cell wall under an outer layer of mannosylated ...
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