New Blood Research Research from East Tennessee State University Outlined

2012 FEB 2 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the journal Carbohydrate Research, "The Candida albicans cell wall provides an architecture that allows for the organism to survive environmental stress as well as interaction with host tissues. Previous work has focused on growing C. albicans on media such as Sabouraud or YPD at 30 degrees C. Because C albicans normally colonizes a host, we hypothesized that cultivation on blood or serum at 37 degrees C would result in structural changes in cell wall mannan. C. albicans SC5314 was inoculated onto YPD, 5% blood, or 5% serum agar media three successive times at 30 degrees C and 37 degrees C, then...

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