October 10, 2016
Scanning EM of cryptococci
Wild type cryptococci imaged by scanning EM. Image by Felipe Santiago-Tirade. See Santiago-Tirado et al, 2016....
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October 10, 2016
Fungi interacting with host phagocytes
Cryptococcal cells (green) interacting with the human THP-1 phagocytes (nuclei, pink; cytosol, red). Image by Deepa Srikanta. See Srikanta et al, 2011....
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October 10, 2016
Infected lung tissue
Mucicarmine stain of a lung section from a mouse infected with C. neoformans, showing host inflammation, tissue destruction, and abundant fungi (walls stained maroon). See Gish et al, 2016....
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October 10, 2016
Infected phagocytes on a model blood-brain barrier
Human phagocytes (green) with engulfed cryptococci (red) interacting with a layer of brain endothelial cells (blue). Image by Felipe Santiago-Tirado. See Santiago-Tirado et al, 2017....
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October 10, 2016
Negative stain of cryptococcal capsules
Light micrograph of cryptococci induced to form capsule and then mixed with India ink. The space occupied by the capsule shows as a clear space between the gray background of the ink particles and the refractile edge of the cell....
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October 10, 2016
Thin section EM of encapsulated cryptococci
Thin section electron micrograph of wild type cryptococci after growth in capsule-inducing medium. Image by Aki Yoneda, colored by Wandy Beatty....
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October 10, 2016
Close up of the edge of a cryptococcal cell
Quick-freeze deep-etch image of the edge of a budding cryptococcal cell, showing a region of the plasma membrane (bottom left) bounded by the bilayered cell wall, with capsule fibers extending to the right from both the parent cell and a newly forming bud. Image by Tamara Doering and John Heuser....
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October 10, 2016
Thin section EM of a budding cell
Thin section of a budding C. neoformans that accumulates secretory vesicles because it has a sav1 mutation. Image by Aki Yoneda. See Yoneda et al, 2006....
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