Apoptosis observed in murine peritoneal macrophages treated with interferon gamma through staphylococcal enterotoxin-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity.

abstract：:We prepared polyclonal antibody specific to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Using this antibody, we developed a latex agglutination test (LAT) for detecting the organism in respiratory exudates as rapid diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection. Further, LAT was compared with DNA-probe test (DP) which was the only commercially avai...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masayoshi T,Hirai Y,Kanemasa Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease was purified from a strain of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from the blood of a septicemic human. The vibrio was cultured in bacto peptone-yeast extract medium, and the protease was purified by a purification procedure including ultrafiltration of the culture supernatant with an Amicon YM 5 membrane, diethylam...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyoshi N,Shimizu C,Miyoshi S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent of genetic diversity of Salmonella choleraesuis subspecies choleraesuis serovar Infantis and whether environmental isolates were similar or identical to human isolates, a total of 110 isolates from humans, broiler samples, egg production facilities, riverwater, sewage, and chicken meat were ana...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami K,Horikawa K,Otsuki K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histopathological observations of changes at the injection site in mice were made for 20 weeks after a single intramuscular (im) injection of aluminum hydroxide-adsorbed tetanus toxoid (Alum-TT), plain tetanus toxoid (TT), or aluminum adjuvant (Alum alone). Marked injury to muscle fibers and infiltration of neutrophil...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Goto N,Akama K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the three-year period from 1984 to 1987, 506 acute gastroenteritis outbreaks involving 14,383 patients were reported to the Bureau of Public Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Eighty (4,324 patients) of 150 outbreaks (4,860 patients) from which etiologic agents were not identified were subjected to virologi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sekine S,Okada S,Hayashi Y,Ando T,Terayama T,Yabuuchi K,Miki T,Ohashi M

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:The expression of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type-common surface antigens (CSA) in a representative cell clone (155-4-03) of hamster cell line 155-4 transformed by HSV type 2 was enhanced by treatment with inhibitors of RNA synthesis [adriamycin (ADM) and daunomycin] but not with inhibitors of DNA synthesis (2-iododeo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kako D,Ohnishi Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borna disease virus (BoDV), a prototype of mammalian bornavirus, is a non-segmented, negative strand RNA virus that often causes severe neurological disorders in infected animals, including horses and sheep. Unique among animal RNA viruses, BoDV transcribes and replicates non-cytopathically in the cell nucleus, leadin...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujino K,Yamamoto Y,Daito T,Makino A,Honda T,Tomonaga K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To detect neutralization-relevant antibodies against 3 types of poliovirus (PV) without using tissue cultures and live viruses, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based on monoclonal antibody-binding inhibition was evaluated using sera from 80 vaccinated Japanese children and 60 Pakistani poliomyelitis patie...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hashido M,Horie H,Abe S,Doi Y,Hashizume S,Agboatwalla M,Isomura S,Nishio O,Hagiwara A,Inouye S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages act as a reservoir for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, producing latent infection in approximately 90% of infected people. In this study, J774A.1 mouse macrophage cell line response and microRNA (miRNA) expression during infection with the most relevant mycobacterial strains for humans (M. tuberculosis, M. bov...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Elizabeth MC,Hernández de la Cruz ON,Mauricio CA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages (Mphis), but not T cells, infiltrating into the rejection site of either i.p. allografted Meth A (H-2d) fibrosarcoma cells in C57BL/6 (B6) (H-2b) mice or BALB/c (H-2d) skin onto B6 mice are cytotoxic against allografts with H-2d specificity. To determine the mechanisms of specific killing of allografts by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida R,Oku T,Takikawa O,Einaga-Naito K,Yoneda Y,Hirota R,Kubota T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solubilized sheep red blood cell (SRBC) antigen (supernatant fraction obtained by centrifuging 10(7)-2 x 108 sonicated SRBC at 6 x 10(4) g for 30 min [Sup-SRBC]), whose ability to inhibit anti-SRBC plaque formation was 70% of that of the original sonicated SRBC, was unable to elicit a detectable antibody response in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagase F,Nakashima I,Nagase N,Kato N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the heat resistance and the range of growth temperature o gram-negative rods to find one of the bacterial factors governing their infectivity in exogenous and endogenous infections in predisposed patients. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacte...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuji A,Kaneko Y,Takahashi K,Ogawa M,Goto S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective and differential media were designed for each species of Pityrosporum; P. pachydermatis, P. ovale, and P. orbiculare in order to make feasible a quantitative cultivation. Medium for P. pachydermatis (medium A) was composed of 1% trypticase peptone (BBL), 0.5% yeast extract (BBL), 0.3% glucose, 0.2% NaCl, 1.2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ushijima T,Takahashi M,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of B-1 cells in protection against Toxoplasma gondii infection using B cell-deficient mice (muMT mice). We found that primed but not naïve B-1 cells from wild-type C57BL/6 mice protected B cell-deficient recipients from challenge infection. All muMT mice transferred with primed B-1 cells survived ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chen M,Mun HS,Piao LX,Aosai F,Norose K,Mohamed RM,Belal US,Fang H,Ahmed AK,Kang HK,Matsuzaki G,Kitamura D,Yano A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corilagin and tellimagrandin I are polyphenols isolated from the extract of Arctostaphylos uvaursi and Rosa canina L. (rose red), respectively. We have reported that corilagin and tellimagrandin I remarkably reduced the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of beta-lactams in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shiota S,Shimizu M,Sugiyama J,Morita Y,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activity of cefpodoxime against Branhamella catarrhalis was studied. All of the 65 clinical isolates tested were inhibited at and below 1.56 micrograms/ml, both at 10(7) and at 10(5) CFUs. The following was further studied on B. catarrhalis N-5 which showed average susceptibility to each drug examine...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takenouchi T,Nishino T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to determine the possible role of intracellular Ca2+ in lipid peroxide formation in endotoxin-poisoned mice. Leakages of LDH isozyme and acid phosphatase in serum of mice fed a Ca2+-deficient diet were remarkably increased after administration of 200 micrograms of endotoxin compared to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Ibata H,Yokota K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to count Clostridium tyrobutyricum spores in milk after membrane filtration, murine 21E7-B12 monoclonal antibody was produced. Elution of the monoclonal antibody from this antigen, the flagellar filament protein, by carbohydrate ligands was used to study the epitope structure. A competitive elution of an anti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bédouet L,Arnold F,Robreau G,Batina P,Talbot F,Malcoste R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of infection by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, one of the important pathogens in human periodontal diseases, has been reported to be associated with racial background and genetic factors. We attempted to determine the genetic regulation of immune responses to A. actinomycetemcomitans fimbriae, an ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Honma K,Ishii N,Kato T,Ishihara K,Okuda K,Okuda K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gp96 plays a central role in innate as well as acquired immunity, maturation and chemotaxis of dendritic cells, Ab production, and cross-priming, and is a peptide acceptor in endoplasmic reticulum and an accessory to peptide loading of MHC class I molecules. The remarkable conservation of essential immunological prope...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Cho NH,Choi CY,Seong SY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of Mycoplasma pulmonis m53 organisms to mouse and rat synovial cells was examined by using the organisms and the synovial cells treated in various ways. M. pulmonis treated with trypsin attached to the synovial cells, but the organisms treated with pronase, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, or heat did not....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Araake M,Yayoshi M,Yoshioka M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There was a significant amount of non-specific, but not of allergen (e.g., papain, mite feces and four kinds of pollen)-specific, IgE antibodies (Abs) in the sera of normal mice. An i.n. injection of each allergen without adjuvant into mice caused an increase in total IgE Ab titers with a similar time course in the se...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hannya N,Ogita-Nakanishi H,Kato R,Ijiri Y,Hayashi T,Tanaka K,Kawata R,Takenaka H,Kubota T,Yoshida R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opaque (Op) and translucent (Tr) colonial variants were isolated from Vibrio vulnificus strains. Op-type variants were more resistant than the isogenic Tr-type variants, but the survival rate of the Op-type variants varied with the strains. Antisera were prepared by immunizing rabbit with whole cells of Op and Tr vari...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shinoda S,Kobayashi M,Yamada H,Yoshida S,Ogawa M,Mizuguchi Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific tumor microenvironment signaling might prevent the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs) with tolerogenic and immunosuppressive potential accounting for antigen-specific unresponsiveness in the lymphoid organs and in the periphery. In the present study, dendritic cells treated with LLC lung cancer cell or 4T1 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma C,Su M,Shen K,Chen J,Ning Y,Qi C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the molecular characteristics of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in Okinawa, 23 strains of JE virus isolated in a 25-year span were sequenced for the 240 nucleotides of the C-preM junction region and 111 nucleotides of the E gene region and compared with those of reference strains isolated in ma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma SP,Arakaki S,Makino Y,Fukunaga T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts were made to study the pathogenicity of some strains of Bacteroides fragilis group in the rat intra-abdominal abscess model. Multiple intraabdominal abscesses were produced in 50 to 70% of animals when an inoculum containing 10(9) CFU/ml of any of the five species of Bacteroides fragilis group was injected. R...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Jotwani R,Gupta U,Watanabe K,Ueno K

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:An environmental isolate of V. mimicus, strain E-33, has been reported to produce and secrete a hemolysin of 63 kDa. The hemolysin is enterotoxic in test animals. The nucleotide sequence of the structural gene of the hemolysin was determined. We found a 2,232 bp open reading frame, which codes a peptide of 744 amino a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rahman MM,Miyoshi S,Tomochika K,Wakae H,Shinoda S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain with affinity to Candida albicans was successfully obtained from a natural environment. An uncovered Petri dish containing a suspension of heat-killed C. albicans cells was allowed to stand in a laboratory for several days. Some bacteria which had adhered to the candidal cells were tested for their ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seki K,Kobayashi K,Tomiya Y,Sakurada J,Murai M,Usui A,Masuda S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00