SDF-1 has costimulatory effects on human T cells: possible involvement of MAPK (ERK2) activation.

abstract：:A mutant MT of Micrococcus lysodeikticus (luteus) IFO 3333, whose minimum growing unit is not a single cell, but a tetrad unlike the wild-type divides by binary fission of each monococcus, and then separates first into two daughter tetrads, second into four tetrads and third into eight tetrads. The three planes of eit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Monodane T,Matsushima Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MoAb) to human neutrophils, designated 3H9, was established by screening for the inhibition of neutrophil adherence to plastic plates containing a medium supplemented with fetal calf serum (FCS medium). The antigen recognized by 3H9 was shown to be present on human leukocytes and found at the hi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohtake K,Takei H,Watanabe T,Sato Y,Yamashita T,Sudo K,Kuroki M,Chihara J,Sendo F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A VeraCode-allele-specific primer extension (ASPE) method was applied to the detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus (HPV)-DNA. Oligonucleotide primers containing HPV-type-specific L1 sequences were annealed to HPV-DNA amplified by PGMY-PCR, followed by ASPE to label the DNA with biotinylated nucleotides. The...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitamura-Muramatsu Y,Kusumoto-Matsuo R,Kondo K,Mori S,Saito S,Tsukahara Y,Kukimoto I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the establishment of an HEp2 cell line which expresses the US3 protein kinase (PK) of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) upon induction with IPTG. Here we report that expression, phosphorylation and ubiquitination of cytokeratin 17 (CK17) are enhanced in US3-expressing HEp2 cells. In vitro kina...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murata T,Goshima F,Nishizawa Y,Daikoku T,Takakuwa H,Ohtsuka K,Yoshikawa T,Nishiyama Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmethylated CpG-ODN are known to enhance Th1-type immune response. However, optimal sequences of CpG-ODN for activating Th1-type immune cells vary among species. It is necessary to identify the effective CpG-ODN sequences in each species. In the present study, in order to identify the sequences of CpG-ODN that produc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Satoh R,Kotake M,Takano T,Motokawa K,Gemma T,Watanabe R,Arai S,Hohdatsu T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy of three SARS vaccine candidates in a murine SARS model utilizing low-virulence Pp and SARS-CoV coinfection. Vaccinated mice were protected from severe respiratory disease in parallel with a low virus titer in the lungs and a high neutralizing antibody titer in the plasma. Importantly, the ad...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishii K,Hasegawa H,Nagata N,Ami Y,Fukushi S,Taguchi F,Tsunetsugu-Yokota Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct stimulations of murine B lymphocytes with synthetic lipid A analogs and synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) derivatives were studied using a limiting dilution assay system. Synthetic lipid A analogs, GLA-27 and GLA-40, when conjugated with bovine serum albumin (BSA) had the ability to induce B cell clonal expansi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito-Taki T,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L forms of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 conferred strong protection to a lethal challenge with its parental bacterium on innately hypersusceptible C3H/HeJ mice, and its minimal protective dose was approximately 150 L-forming units. Although L-form S. typhimurium was avirulent for C3H/HeJ mice, it multiplied slowly in bo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikawa F,Kita E,Yamada H,Nakano A,Kashiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi), an important human respiratory pathogen, frequently causes biofilm infections. Currently, resistance of bacteria within the biofilm to conventional antimicrobials poses a major obstacle to effective medical treatment on a global scale. Novel agents that are effective against ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kunthalert D,Baothong S,Khetkam P,Chokchaisiri S,Suksamrarn A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic study on serotyping of Enterococcus faecalis has been reported since 1964 when M.E. Sharpe conducted serotyping of group D streptococcus in U.K. So, we attempted to re-evaluate serotyping of E. faecalis. For this purpose, we received 42 Sharpe's strains and first examined for their biochemical characteri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maekawa S,Yoshioka M,Kumamoto Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lancefield group C Streptococcus dysgalactiae causes infections in farmed fish. Here, the genome of S. dysgalactiae strain kdys0611, isolated from farmed amberjack (Seriola dumerili) was sequenced. The complete genome sequence of kdys0611 consists of a single chromosome and five plasmids. The chromosome is 2,142,780 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishiki I,Yoshida T,Fujiwara A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major structural proteins of Newcastle disease virus and Sendai virus were localized in infected BHK-21 and MDBK cells by ultrastructural immunoperoxidase cytochemistry using antibodies against the individual viral protein antigens. The intracellular glycoproteins were strictly membrane bound, being localized in t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagai Y,Yoshida T,Hamaguchi M,Nagura H,Hasegawa H,Yoshimura S,Watanabe K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-1,3-glucan is a major component of fungal cell walls with various biological activities, including effects on the production of inflammatory mediators in vivo and in vitro. However, few reports have examined its influence on the fungal cell itself. In this study, the influences of β-1,3-glucan on the growth and cell...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishibashi K,Kurone Y,Motoi M,Miura NN,Adachi Y,Shirasu Y,Ohno N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of a suitable animal model is a major obstacle to developing anti-HIV-1 vaccines. We successfully generated an SIVmac/HIV-1 chimeric virus (SHIV) (designated as NM-3rN) that contains the HIV-1 env gene and is infectious to macaque monkeys. Challenging the vaccinated macaque monkeys with NM-3rN, we developed a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Haga T,Kuwata T,Ui M,Igarashi T,Miyazaki Y,Hayami M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM), or cord factor, is a crucial stimulus of immune responses during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Although TDM has immuno-stimulatory properties, including adjuvant activity and the ability to induce granuloma formation, the mechanisms underlying these remain unknown. We hypothesi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee WB,Yan JJ,Kang JS,Chung S,Kim LK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five groups of 32 chemicals were examined regarding their immunological functions as modifier inactivants to make inactivated Sendai nasal vaccine using a contact exposure experiment, direct immunofluorescent method, and serum HI titer. (1) Five of the nine reactive groups of reactive dyes (2-chloropyridine, 2, 4, 6-t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyamae T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from bovine intramammary infection (mastitis) were tested for adhesion to bovine mammary epithelial cells after growth in milk whey or TSB. Bacteria grown in milk whey adhered more efficiently to mammary gland epithelial cells in vitro than the corresponding homologous bacteria g...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mamo W,Fröman G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospire lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated the adherence of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Enhanced PMN adherence in response to leptospire LPS can be mediated by platelet-activator-factor (PAF), because a PAF antagonist reduced adherence. Leptospire LPS als...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isogai E,Hirose K,Kimura K,Hayashi S,Kubota T,Fujii N,Isogai H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature dependence of transfer was examined with ten R plasmids originating from clinical isolates of Salmonella. Six of the plasmids were thermosensitive upon transfer, five of which were originally harbored in S. typhimurium and the remaining one in S. derby. One of these plasmids, pNR502, which conferred resist...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida Y,Terawaki Y,Nakaya R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cholera-like enterotoxin was purified from Vibrio cholerae O139 strain AI-1841 isolated from a diarrheal patient in Bangladesh. Its characteristics were compared with that of cholera toxins (CTs) of classical strain 569B and El Tor strain KT25. Al-1841 produced as much toxin as O1 strains. The toxins were indistingu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakashima K,Eguchi Y,Nakasone N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) is a widely used probiotic strain with health benefits. In this study, the survival of LcS in the intestines of healthy Chinese adults was assessed and the effects of LcS on stool consistency, stool SCFAs and intestinal microbiota evaluated. Subjects consumed 100 mL per day of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wang R,Chen S,Jin J,Ren F,Li Y,Qiao Z,Wang Y,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer cells, a critical component of the innate immune system, eradicate both virus-infected cells and tumor cells through cytotoxicity and secretion of cytokines. Human NK cell research has largely been based on in vitro studies because of the lack of appropriate animal models. In this study, a selective pro...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hattori S,Matsuda K,Kariya R,Harada H,Okada S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples were collected from 938 pigs of 24 farms in Hokkaido, Kagoshima, and Okinawa prefectures in Japan in 2001-2005. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used for the detection of antibodies to LipL32 antigen which is common to Leptospira interrogans. Samples positive in ELISA were then investigated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Naito M,Sakoda Y,Kamikawa T,Nitta Y,Hirose K,Sakashita M,Kurokawa S,Kida H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural protein 5B (NS5B) is an RNA replicase. We expressed full-length NS5B (591 amino acid residues) in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with maltose binding protein (MBP-NS5B). MBP-NS5B was recovered in the soluble fraction after centrifugation at 40,000 x g and affinity-purified ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka T,Sugiyama K,Ikeda M,Naganuma A,Nozaki A,Saito M,Shimotohno K,Kato N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to investigate the resistance of the host due to antibody-mediated mechanisms to herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. Transfer of hyperimmune anti-HSV mouse serum inhibited the development of skin lesions and prolonged the survival of lethally HSV-infected nude mice. Relatively high concent...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hayashida I,Nagafuchi S,Hayashi Y,Kino Y,Mori R,Oda H,Ohtomo N,Tashiro A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastomycosis, caused by the thermally dimorphic fungus Blastomyces dermatitides, which is endemic to eastern regions of the USA, is commonly misdiagnosed as a viral or bacterial infection and therefore treated improperly. Over the years, many immunodiagnostic assays to aid in the diagnosis of blastomycosis have been ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hatch WO,Scalarone GM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serovar-specific main antigen (TM antigen) of Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola, which as lipopolysaccharide properties, was treated with 0.1 N sodium hydroxide. This treatment degraded the antigen into two major antigenic components, one of high and one of low molecular weight. The component with the lower ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuji M,Kawaoka Y,Naiki M,Yanagawa R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus infection has attracted special interest because of its high mortality. A strong clinical association exists between hepatic dysfunction and increased morbidity and mortality from V. vulnificus infection. In this study, the effect of C-reactive protein (CRP), a typical hepatogenic acute phase protein...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chae MR,Park BH,Kim JS,Rho HW,Park JW,Kim HR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00