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Fungal Capsules

Known as: Capsule, Fungal, Capsules, Fungal, Fungal Capsule 
An extracellular layer outside the cell wall of a fungus composed of polysaccharides. It may serve a protective role amongst others.
National Institutes of Health

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2012
2012
Mechanisms of brain infection by the human fungalpathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
Known for over a hundred years, the human fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans causes cryptococcosis, a life threatening… 
1998
1998
In-111 octreotide lung uptake in hypersensitive pneumonitis caused by fungal infection.
Results of a chest radiograph taken in a 60-year-old woman with evidence of adrenal hyperfunction were within normal limits. In… 
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1990
Highly Cited
1990
Growth inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans by cultured human monocytes: role of the capsule, opsonins, the culture surface, and cytokines
Despite a presumed critical role of macrophages in the host response to cryptococcal infections, previous studies have failed to… 
1978
1978
An ultrastructural examination of the interaction between macrophages and Cryptococcus neoformans
The interaction of mononuclear phagocytes with Cryptococcus neoformans was examined in vitro and in vivo using ultrastructural… 
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