Impairment of endotoxin-induced macrophage inflammatory protein 2 gene expression in alveolar macrophages in streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mice.

abstract：:Parasite antigens which bind to host cell molecules of approximately 32 and 34 kilodaltons (kDa) were identified in supernatant fluids obtained from axenic cultures of Trypanosoma cruzi. These parasite components were first detected in culture supernatants obtained after 2 weeks in culture. Immunoblot analysis of cult...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CD,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the ability of gut antigens to induce a protective immune response against blood-feeding nematodes, isolated gut antigens were used to immunize goats against Haemonchus contortus. Immunization-induced antibody responses recognized parasite gut antigens which were associated predominantly with the microvil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jasmer DP,McGuire TC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intravenous administration of hydrogen peroxide has been reported to benefit patients with pneumonia and to reduce Plasmodium parasitemia in experimentally infected mice. We assessed the antibacterial activity of intravenously infused hydrogen peroxide against hydrogen peroxide-susceptible Escherichia coli (MBC of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shenep JL,Stokes DC,Hughes WT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) occurs after a long-term Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the disease can develop earlier, and rare cases have been observed in children, suggesting that these H. pylori strains may be more virulent. We used suppressive subtractive hybridization for comparative genomics between H. pyl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oleastro M,Monteiro L,Lehours P,Mégraud F,Ménard A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-induced extracytoplasmic sigma factor E (SigE) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows increased expression after heat shock, sodium dodecyl sulfate treatment, and oxidative stress, as well as after phagocytosis in macrophages. We report that deletion of sigE results in delayed lethality in mice without a signi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ando M,Yoshimatsu T,Ko C,Converse PJ,Bishai WR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is the most common cause of urinary tract infection. Elevated blood and urine interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels have been shown in inflammatory urinary tract diseases. The role of IL-6 in mediating the urodynamic dysfunction in response to E. coli-induced urinary tract infection has not yet been fully eluci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weng TI,Wu HY,Lin PY,Liu SH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of chemical composition in whole cells of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi were performed and compared with those of the other rickettsiae and gram-negative bacteria. The results indicated that R. tsutsugamushi does not contain detectable amounts of 3-deoxy-D-mannooctulosonic acid, heptose, muramic acid, or glucosami...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Amano K,Tamura A,Ohashi N,Urakami H,Kaya S,Fukushi K

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates from patients with bacteriuria of pregnancy were compared by PCR with isolates from patients with community-acquired cystitis for the presence of established virulence determinants. The strains from patients with bacteriuria of pregnancy were less likely to carry genes for P-family, S-family,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graham JC,Leathart JB,Keegan SJ,Pearson J,Bint A,Gally DL

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eperythrozoon coccoides is a common blood parasite of rodents and the etiological agent of a chronic infection present in many mouse colonies. After primary infection, mice develop a parasitemia and anemia followed by a chronic, latent infection. During the acute phase of infection, mice manifest a striking suppressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Glasgow LA,Odugbemi T,Dwyer P,Ritterson AL

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine antigen-specific antibody-secreting cell (ASC) responses in peripheral blood of healthy adult volunteers were studied after oral immunization with a prototype enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccine by means of the enzyme-linked immunospot technique. Three doses of vaccine consisting of formalin-killed...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wennerås C,Svennerholm AM,Ahrén C,Czerkinsky C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henle 407 and HeLa cells were compared as hosts for Shigella dysenteriae at a low multiplicity of infection. Efficiency of attachment and invasion without centrifugation, as well as selectivity for pathogenic over nonpathogenic S. dysenteriae without Congo red, were much greater for Henle 407 cells than for HeLa cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sen A,Leon MA,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) and botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) are clostridial neurotoxins (CNTs) responsible for the paralytic diseases tetanus and botulism, respectively. CNTs are AB toxins with an N-terminal zinc-metalloprotease light chain that is linked by a disulfide bond to a C-terminal heavy chain that includes a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blum FC,Przedpelski A,Tepp WH,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains that cause nonbloody diarrhea in infants are known to present three distinct patterns of adherence to epithelial cells, namely, localized (LA), diffuse (DA), and aggregative (AA) adherence. Strains with LA (typical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli [EPEC]) are well recognized as a cause of sec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Scaletsky IC,Pedroso MZ,Oliva CA,Carvalho RL,Morais MB,Fagundes-Neto U

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the diphtheria toxin phenotype of specially selected isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (C. ovis). All produced proteins similar in size and immunological structure to diphtheria toxin. As with diphtheria toxin, they exhibited ADP-ribosylating activity, and their ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wong TP,Groman N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit endogenous pyrogens occurred in two forms. One was an apparently single protein with a pI of 7.3; the other was a family of proteins with pI values of 4.5 to 5.0. We selected two of the latter, with pI values of 4.6 and 4.72, as representative of the group and compared them with the pI 7.3 pyrogen. Antisera rai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy PA,Cebula TA,Levin J,Windle BE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated immunity is critical in host resistance against the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. To explore the role of L3T4+ T cells in protection of mice against H. capsulatum infection, we examined the effect of in vivo treatment with anti-L3T4 monoclonal antibody (MAb) GK1.5 on the course of murine diss...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gomez AM,Bullock WE,Taylor CL,Deepe GS Jr

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is both a common and, despite present-day therapy, a serious disease. The pathophysiology of the septic response is a complex, multifactorial phenomenon which in part involves the activation of complement by bacterial endotoxin. A monoclonal antibody to human complement factor B, code-named 1H5, which was capab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clardy CW

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to kidneys and bladders of experimentally infected mice was shown to be determined in part by the adhesive properties of the infecting bacteria. Mice were infected with various pairwise combinations of two homogeneic sets of bacteria: (i) mutants derived from a human pyel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hagberg L,Hull R,Hull S,Falkow S,Freter R,Svanborg Edén C

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using microarray technology, we studied the early differential expression of 3,528 genes in human meningothelial cells in response to meningococcal challenge. Thirty-two genes were up-regulated, and four were down-regulated. Those up-regulated included the tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-8 (b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wells DB,Tighe PJ,Wooldridge KG,Robinson K,Ala' Aldeen DA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactivity between Treponema pallidum and several pathogenic members of the family Spirochaetaceae was examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting techniques. Blots of T. pallidum antigens were incubated with antiserum from rabbits infected or immunize...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker-Zander SA,Lukehart SA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid A protein (SAA) elevation accompanies induction of secondary amyloidosis in mice given Mycobacterium butyricum in Freund adjuvant. The synthesis of SAA by cultured hepatocytes is induced by a macrophage-derived mediator, which has been identified as interleukin 1. In these studies, SAA synthesis has been...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McAdam KP,Foss NT,Garcia C,DeLellis R,Chedid L,Rees RJ,Wolff SM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based upon the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure and antigenicity of Shigella group B, a strategy for broad cross-protection against 14 Shigella flexneri serotypes was designed. This strategy involves the use of two S. flexneri serotypes (2a and 3a), which together bear the all of the major antigenic group factors of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noriega FR,Liao FM,Maneval DR,Ren S,Formal SB,Levine MM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid A portion has been identified as the active center responsible for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced macrophage activation. However, we found that Salmonella (Salmonella enterica serovars Abortusequi, Minnesota, and Typhimurium) lipid A is inactive in human macrophages, despite its LPS being highly active. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Muroi M,Tanamoto K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experimentation has highlighted a number of difficulties in the development of carrier-based bivalent vaccines (J.-F. Viret and D. Favre, Biologicals 22:361-372, 1994) In an attempt to obviate these carrier strains. Toward this aim, a series of defined rfbInaba deletion (delta rfbInaba) mutants of the cholera...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Favre D,Cryz SJ Jr,Viret JF

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis inv mutant strains cured of the virulence plasmid exhibit thermoinducible adhesion to cultured mammalian cells. To identify the genes responsible for this phenotype, Y. pseudotuberculosis homologs of the Y. enterocolitica ail and the Y. pestis psa loci were identified. Mutations in the Y. p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yang Y,Merriam JJ,Mueller JP,Isberg RR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibronectin-degrading ability of 116, mainly oral, strains was assayed by using plasma-derived fibronectin adsorbed to a polystyrene surface. Ability to degrade fibronectin was revealed in strains of Bacteroides gingivalis, Bacteroides intermedius, Bacteroides loeschii, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epider...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wikström M,Linde A

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae releases peptidoglycan fragments during growth, and these molecules induce an inflammatory response in the human host. The proinflammatory molecules include peptidoglycan monomers, peptidoglycan dimers, and free peptides. These molecules can be released by the actions of lytic transglycosylases o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaub RE,Perez-Medina KM,Hackett KT,Garcia DL,Dillard JP

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sublethal infection of mice with recombinant Listeria monocytogenes expressing a model epitope in either secreted or nonsecreted form results in similar CD8(+) T-cell priming. Since nonsecreted bacterial proteins have no obvious access to the endogenous major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I presentation pathw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tvinnereim AR,Harty JT

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the d15 gene from two strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and two strains of nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHI). The nucleotide and deduced protein sequences of d15 are highly conserved, with only a small variable region identified near the carboxyl terminus of the protein. Analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loosmore SM,Yang YP,Coleman DC,Shortreed JM,England DM,Klein MH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00