Abstract
The histological and ultrastructural aspects of chronic granulomas from rats infected intraperitoneally with Paracoccidioides brasiliensis are described with special emphasis on the composition of the extracellular matrix.
The granulomas were structurally arranged in two zones, one central containing fungi, and the other peripheral.
The extracellular matrix was composed of collagen types I and III, proteoglycans, glycoprotein, and an undefined amorphous substance. The main cellular population was represented by macrophages, epithelioid cells, and giant cells in the central zone, and fibroblasts in the peripheral zone.
The fibrotic process was a critical event in this stage of the infection, and showed a centrifugal direction. This might be provoked by direct stimulus from the fungi or by macrophage-fibroblastic interaction.
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Kerr, I.B., de Oliveira, P.C. & Lenzi, H.L. Connective matrix organization in chronic granulomas of experimental paracoccidioidomycosis. Mycopathologia 103, 11–20 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00437216
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