Microbiology and immunology

Microbiol Immunol · ISSN (print) 0385-5600 · 1 paper in corpus

lab-animal 1995

Suppression of anti-Candida activity of murine neutrophils by progesterone in vitro: a possible mechanism in pregnant women's vulnerability to vaginal candidiasis

doi:10.1111/j.1348-0421.1995.tb02220.x ·PMID:8551972

Sex steroid hormones were examined for their effect on mycelial growth of Candida albicans, and the inhibitory activity of casein-induced murine peritoneal neutrophils against mycelial growth of C. albicans was examined in vitro using a cry…