Estrogen effects on Candida albicans: a potential virulence-regulating mechanism.

@article{Zhang2000EstrogenEO,
  title={Estrogen effects on Candida albicans: a potential virulence-regulating mechanism.},
  author={Xiaoqian Zhang and Michael Essmann and Edward T. Burt and Bryan Larsen},
  journal={The Journal of infectious diseases},
  year={2000},
  volume={181 4},
  pages={
          1441-6
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:7599626}
}
Results suggested that intracellular hsp90 was up-regulated in the presence of 10-9 M 17-beta-estradiol, indicating that the estrogen-sensing and -response systems in C. albicans may lack specificity.
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