Yuriko Furuya, Kaoru Mori, Tadashi Ninomiya, Yoshiya Tomimori, Sakae Tanaka, Naoyuki Takahashi, Nobuyuki Udagawa , Kohji Uchida, and Hisataka Yasuda** From the Nagahama Institute for Biochemical Science, Nagahama Branch, Oriental Yeast Co., Limited, 50 Kano-cho Nagahama, Shiga 526-0804, the **Bioindustry Division, Oriental Yeast Co., Limited, 3-610 Azusawa, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-8505, the Inst...

Candida albicans is the most pathogenic fungal species, commonly colonizing on human mucosal surfaces. As a polymorphic species, C. albicans is capable of switching between yeast and hyphal forms, causing an array of mucosal and disseminated infections with high mortality. While the yeast form is most commonly associated with systemic disease, the hyphae are more adept at adhering to and penetr...

OBJECTIVE Candida albicans and its non-albicans counterparts, such as C. tropicalis, C. krusei, C. glabrata and C. dubliniensis, are the major etiological agents of oral candidosis. Their adherence to buccal epithelial cells (BEC), denture acrylic surfaces (DAS) and cell surface hydrophobicity (CSH) are attributes associated with yeast colonization and infection. Chlorhexidine gluconate (CG) is...

Wintrobe (1) recently stated that certain patients with typical pernicious anemia could be thrown into complete remission by oral treatment with dried, unautolyzed yeast, and he concluded that there was in the yeast some hematopoietic factor specific for the disease. As further argument for this belief, he stated that the addition of normal human gastric juice did not increase the potency of ye...

Antitumor mAb bind to tumors and activate complement, coating tumors with iC3b. Intravenously administered yeast beta-1,3;1,6-glucan functions as an adjuvant for antitumor mAb by priming the inactivated C3b (iC3b) receptors (CR3; CD11b/CD18) of circulating granulocytes, enabling CR3 to trigger cytotoxicity of iC3b-coated tumors. Recent data indicated that barley beta-1,3;1,4-glucan given orally...

Both Candida albicans and lactobacilli are common colonizers of carious lesions in children and adolescents. The purpose of this study is to compare the velocity of acid production between C. albicans and several Lactobacillus species at different pH levels and concentrations of glucose. Washed, pure resting-cell suspensions were obtained by culturing a total of 28 oral isolates comprising the ...

The purpose of this work was to study the effect of initial pH and yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae on biogas production from tofu wastewater (TW). The initial pH was varied in ranging of 5 – 9 in substrate without yeast (T5-T9) and with yeast (TY5-TY9). The results showed that optimum initial pH was 8. The maximum biogas was resulted in T8 (275 mL) and TY8 (421 mL). Yeast addition increased tota...

The adherence of three Candida species to human buccal epithelial cells (BEC) following treatment with different concentrations of date extract was investigated in vitro, as well as the effect of a mouth rinse with date extract on the adhesion of yeast to BEC. Adhesion of C. albicans, C. tropicalis and C. kefyr to BEC was significantly reduced after both short- and long-term periods of yeast ex...