Candida (C.) species colonize the estrogenized vagina in at least 20% of all women. This statistic rises to 30% in late pregnancy and in immunosuppressed patients. The most often occurring species is Candida albicans. Host factors, especially local defense deficiencies, gene polymorphisms, allergic factors, serum glucose levels, antibiotics, psychosocial stress and estrogens influence the risk ...

Organ transplant recipients under immunosuppressive therapy have a highly increased risk of acquiring unusual opportunistic fungal infections. Therefore, diagnostics for uncharacteristic inflammatory skin lesions in transplant recipients must include an appropriate search for fungi. We recently diagnosed a renal transplant recipient with a cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to Alternaria infectori...

In eukaryotes, regulated cell death (RCD) is an active mechanism essential for development, immune responses, and many pathophysiological processes (Hakem et al., 1998; Yoshida et al., 1998; Lindsten et al., 2000; Van Hautegem et al., 2015). In animals, cell death was traditionally classified into three categories, based on the morphological features exhibited by cells during the death process,...

303 The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 216 No. 2 303–304 https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201612078 A decade ago, apoptosis was assumed to be the exclusive mode of cellular demise that followed genetically determined signaling pathways. Today, however, we understand that in most pathophysiological circumstances, necrosis also represents a regulated process of cell death that ...

Shokri H and Sharifzadeh A Journal of Herbmed Pharmacology, Volume 6, Number 1, January 2017 http://www.herbmedpharmacol.com 2 and is the aborigine of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (5). Zataria multiflora can be recognized by the orbicular, densely gland-dotted, ovate leaves and the dense white, hairy, round buds on the leaf axils. It is an aromatic shrub that reaches 60-90 cm in height. Matur...