Results obtained from the killing treatments.

<p>(A–D) Effect of heat and metaperiodate treatments on <i>Candida albicans</i> cell surface studied by incubation with Con A-FITC followed by flow cytometry: cell complexity (side scatter, SSC), cell size (Forward Scatter, FSC), and fluorescence (FL1). R1: live cells. R2: cells killed with heat. R3: cells killed with a 20 mM metaperiodate. R4: cells killed with 50 mM metaperiodate. (E) Effect of heat- and sodium metaperiodate (50 mM)-treated <i>C. albicans</i> blastoconidia on the increase of B16 melanoma (B16M) cell adhesion to HSE. The results shown correspond to the mean ± SD of three independent experiments. Statistically significant differences with respect to the control or between cell conditions are indicated by one and two asterisks (**) (p<0.05), respectively.