A severe polyarthritis can be induced in female Lewis rats by intraperitoneal administration of sonicated cell walls derived from group A, B, and C streptococci (1) . This clinical disease is characterized by an acute phase, detected between days 1 and 4, and a chronic phase that occurs N3 wk after immunization . Similarities exist between this disease in rats and human rheumatoid arthritis (RA...

Virulence of the opportunistic yeast, Candida albieans, involves the interplay of many complex changes including the yeast-hyphae transition, which mainly involves protein changes. Cell wall mannoproteins are found to be the main cause of adherence of C. albieans to epithel ial cells in the first step of an infection process. In the present study, cell wall mannoproteins of intact yeast wer...

virulence of the opportunistic yeast, candida albieans, involves the interplay of many complex changes including the yeast-hyphae transition, which mainly involves protein changes. cell wall mannoproteins are found to be the main cause of adherence of c. albieans to epithel ial cells in the first step of an infection process. in the present study, cell wall mannoproteins of intact yeast were pu...

back ground: candida albicans is a member of the normal human microflora. c. albicans cell wall is composed of several protein and carbohydrate components which have been shown to play a crucial role in c. albicans interaction with the host immune system. major components of c. albican cell wall are carbohydrates such as mannans, β glucans and chitins, and proteins that partially modulate the h...