Upregulation of toll-like receptor 2 gene expression in macrophage response to peptidoglycan and high concentration of lipopolysaccharide is involved in NF-kappa b activation.

abstract：:We report on the colonization of murine trigeminal ganglia after sequential infection of mice by herpes simplex viruses (HSVs). In preliminary studies, we have established that whereas the HSV-1(F) strain efficiently colonizes ganglia when inoculated by either the ear or eye routes, the HSV-1 X HSV-2 recombinant C7D c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Meignier B,Norrild B,Roizman B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to study the effect of antibody to Streptococcus mutans glucosyltransferase (GTF) on the implantation of these organisms in hamsters. Salivary (immunoglobulin A) and serum (immunoglobulin G) antibodies to GTF and GTF-inhibiting activity were elicited by injection of GTF in Freund complete ad...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) of Escherichia coli is localized in the periplasm of the bacterial cell. Growth of an LT-producing strain of E. coli in the presence of bile salts, in concentrations within the range found in the human small intestine, caused leakage of LT into the culture medium. This leakage could be...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hunt PD,Hardy SJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed microarray hybridization studies on 40 clinical isolates from 12 common serovars within Salmonella enterica subspecies I to identify the conserved chromosomal gene pool. We were able to separate the core invariant portion of the genome by a novel mathematical approach using a decision tree based on g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anjum MF,Marooney C,Fookes M,Baker S,Dougan G,Ivens A,Woodward MJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a facultative intracellular bacterium which readily grows in cultures of guinea pig and human mononuclear phagocytes. In this report, we demonstrate that the Legionella sp. also grows in thioglycolate-elicited macrophages obtained from A/J mice but not in cells from other mouse strains tested...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yamamoto Y,Klein TW,Newton CA,Widen R,Friedman H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunogenicity of the two major group 19 pneumococcal polysaccharides, types 19F and 19A, was studied in human volunteers. Antibody responses after vaccination with either 50 micrograms of type 19F polysaccharide, 50 micrograms of type 19A polysaccharide, or 25 micrograms of both polysaccharides premixed in a sing...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Penn RL,Lewin EB,Douglas RG Jr,Schiffman G,Lee CJ,Robbins JB

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric pathogen Shigella is one of the leading causes of moderate-to-severe diarrhea and death in young children in developing countries. Transformed cell lines and animal models have been widely used to study Shigella pathogenesis. In addition to altered physiology, transformed cell lines are composed of a singl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ranganathan S,Doucet M,Grassel CL,Delaine-Elias B,Zachos NC,Barry EM

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated plasma cell hybridomas which secrete monoclonal antibodies directed against Haemophilus ducreyi. Two of these monoclonal antibodies recognize all strains of H. ducreyi tested to date and are capable of detecting the presence of H. ducreyi in skin lesions produced by this pathogen in experimental anima...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Loftus TA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeletal lesions associated with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli adhering to cultured HeLa epithelial cells were examined by immunofluorescence microscopy. The microfilament-associated proteins actin, alpha-actinin, talin, and ezrin were localized with adherent enteropathogenic E. coli, whereas tropomyosin, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finlay BB,Rosenshine I,Donnenberg MS,Kaper JB

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of the technique of immune electron microscopy has enabled the detection of a coronavirus in organ culture harvests derived from a washing from an adult with an acute upper respiratory tract illness; convalescent serum was the source of specific antibody. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kapikian AZ,James HD,Kelly SJ,Vaughn AL

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By screening a genomic lambda library of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus, we have cloned and sequenced a gene, termed fnz, encoding a fibronectin (Fn)-binding protein called FNZ. On the basis of the deduced amino acid sequence of FNZ, the mature protein has a molecular mass of approximately 61 kDa. Analysis of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lindmark H,Jacobsson K,Frykberg L,Guss B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coagulase-negative species Staphylococcus lugdunensis is an emerging cause of serious and potentially life-threatening infections, such as infective endocarditis. The pathogenesis of these infections is characterized by the ability of S. lugdunensis to form biofilms on either biotic or abiotic surfaces. To elucida...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rajendran NB,Eikmeier J,Becker K,Hussain M,Peters G,Heilmann C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is uniquely susceptible to a variety of intracellular pathogens and is an excellent model for a number of human infectious diseases. The molecular basis for this high level of susceptibility is unknown, and immunological studies related to this model have been limited b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Melby PC,Tryon VV,Chandrasekar B,Freeman GL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of immunoglobulin-containing cells and antigen-specific plasma cells in retropharyngeal and bronchial lymph nodes, in lung tissue, and in nasal mucous membrane was followed during an experimental infection of pigs with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to follow st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suter M,Kobisch M,Nicolet J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a glycoprotein fraction, designated gp10/20, purified from Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was shown to induce a cellular immune response mediated by murine L3T4+ T lymphocytes. This fact led us to pursue further the characterization of this fraction. The present study demonstrated that gp10/20 is a degradat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodrigues MM,Xavier MT,Mendonça-Previato L,Barcinski MA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine NK cells have recently been characterized and the present study describes the interaction between NK cells, antigen-presenting cells, and secreted mycobacterial proteins. Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production by NK cells was seen in approximately 30% of noninfected calves in response to the Mycobacterium tube...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olsen I,Boysen P,Kulberg S,Hope JC,Jungersen G,Storset AK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the effects of selective impairment of the fixed macrophage compartment on host defense, rabbit anti-rat Kupffer cell serum was raised and tested for its ability to depress phagocytosis and to serve as an immunosuppressant. The ability of the anti-Kupffer cell serum (AKS) to depress intravascular clearanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pisano JC,di Luzio NR

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphilis has been recognized as a disease since the late 1400s, yet there is no practical vaccine available. One impediment to the development of a vaccine is the lack of understanding of multiple reinfections in humans despite the development of robust immune responses during the first episode. It has been shown that...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morgan CA,Lukehart SA,Van Voorhis WC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens normally inhabits the human respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts but is frequently the cause of abscesses at various sites. Using the N-terminal portion of the Moraxella nonliquefaciens pilin gene as a hybridization probe, we cloned two tandemly located pilin genes of E. corrodens 31745, ecpC an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tønjum T,Weir S,Bøvre K,Progulske-Fox A,Marrs CF

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Several strains of group B Streptococcus agalactiae were found to be lethal for young adult rats. When bacteria were heat killed and then injected intraperitoneally into rats, rapid death (14 to 18 h) of the rats occurred, characterized by labored breathing, hemolyzed serum, hemoglobinuria, and subungual hemorrhages. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Warejcka DJ,Goodrum KJ,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (IRBCs) in the human placenta is mediated by chondroitin-4-sulfate (C4S). Although IRBC binding to C4S has been unequivocally established, the adherence characteristics of IRBCs at different stages of parasite development and through successive parasite g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Madhunapantula SV,Achur RN,Gowda DC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytes displayed increased expression of CD40 following infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nevertheless, soluble CD40 ligand (CD40L; also designated CD154) had no effect on the intracellular growth of the organism. Restriction of the intracellular growth of M. tuberculosis by peripheral blood...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Larkin R,Benjamin CD,Hsu YM,Li Q,Zukowski L,Silver RF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A zone of extracellular digestion of the mucin layer around Candida albicans blastoconidia was observed by transmission electron microscopy in the jejunum of mice inoculated intragastrically (G. T. Cole, K. R. Seshan, L. M. Pope, and R. J. Yancey, J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 26:173-185, 1988). This observation prompted the hy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Colina AR,Aumont F,Deslauriers N,Belhumeur P,de Repentigny L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and homing characteristics of T-cell responses in humans after mucosal immunizations have not been well characterized. Therefore, we have investigated the magnitude and duration of such responses as well as the homing receptor expression of antigen-specific peripheral blood T cells by using an oral model ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lundin BS,Johansson C,Svennerholm AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor salivary glands of the oral mucosa in healthy monkeys (Macaca fascicularis and Macaca mulatta) contain organized structural units suitable for recognizing and processing antigens. A previous study of M. fascicularis monkeys provided experimental evidence of retrograde access of oral antigens deep into the minor ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nair PN,Schroeder HE

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium ookinetes secrete chitinases to penetrate the acellular, chitin-containing peritrophic matrix of the mosquito midgut en route to invasion of the epithelium. Chitinases are potentially targets that can be used to block malaria transmission. We demonstrate here that chitinases of Plasmodium falciparum and P. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Langer RC,Hayward RE,Tsuboi T,Tachibana M,Torii M,Vinetz JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of high-molecular-weight (HMW) surface-exposed proteins important in the attachment of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) to human epithelial cells was previously identified (J. W. St. Geme III, S. Falkow, and S. J. Barenkamp, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:2875-2879, 1993). In the present investigation...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bakaletz LO,Barenkamp SJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trivalent cations, including lanthanum (La3+), inhibited the secretion (enterosorption) induced by the enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli in the rabbit ileum in vivo. High concentrations (greater than 10 mM) of La3+ were required to inhibit cholera enterotoxin (CE)-induced enterosorption, pro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leitch GJ,Amer MS

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides, such as defensins or cathelicidins, are effector substances of the innate immune system and are thought to have antimicrobial properties that contribute to host defense. The evidence that vertebrate antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate immunity in vivo is based on their expression patter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bals R,Weiner DJ,Moscioni AD,Meegalla RL,Wilson JM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00