c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase-mediated signaling is essential for Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoS-induced apoptosis.

abstract：:An exoprotein of Staphylococcus aureus 100 that elicited a positive ileal loop response in the rabbit model was investigated in this study. The protein, as it occurred in the culture supernatant fluid, could be detected initially in the late log phase of growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It was stable und...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koupal A,Deibel RH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), a leading cause of bacterial disease, is most commonly carried in the human nasopharynx. Colonization induces inflammation that promotes the organism's growth and transmission. This inflammatory response is dependent on intracellular sensing of bacterial components that acc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lemon JK,Miller MR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with various strains of Salmonella enteritidis and S. typhimurium were found to be more sensitive to the cell wall lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted from certain strains of Salmonella than noninfected mice. This hypersensitivity was induced by those smooth or rough strains which possessed a polysacchari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kawakami M,Hara Y,Osawa N

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the first steps in the development of cerebral toxoplasmosis is the penetration of the blood-brain barrier, which is comprised of microvascular endothelial cells. We examined the capacity of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) to interact with Toxoplasma gondii. We found that stimulation of HBME...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Däubener W,Spors B,Hucke C,Adam R,Stins M,Kim KS,Schroten H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternate modalities for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are needed due to the rise in numbers of immunosuppressed individuals at risk for serious disease and the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has been shown to improve immune responses against M. tuberculosis...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nolt D,Flynn JL

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms underlying the eosinophil-mediated inflammation of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, serum, and supernatants from pulmonary and blood leukocytes (WBC) from patients with acute TPE (n = 6) were compared with those obtained from healthy uninfected indivi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： O'Bryan L,Pinkston P,Kumaraswami V,Vijayan V,Yenokida G,Rosenberg HF,Crystal R,Ottesen EA,Nutman TB

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are the main inflammatory cell present in lesions involving the central nervous system (CNS) during human and murine listeriosis. In this study, administration of the neutrophil-depleting monoclonal antibody RB6-8C5 during experimental murine listeriosis facilitated the multiplication of Listeria monocytog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： López S,Marco AJ,Prats N,Czuprynski CJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that the bactericidal ability and the stimulated oxidative metabolism of leukocytes appear in parallel during fetal development of the Minnesota Miniature pig has been obtained by application of the techniques applied to studies of human cells. It was demonstrated that leukocytes from 87- to 90-day fetuses we...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Holmes B,Day N,Haseman J,Good RA

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type b infection of immersed and air interface organ cultures for 24 h caused significant epithelial damage. Bacterial association with mucus, damaged epithelium, and unciliated cells was significantly higher in air interface than immersed organ cultures, and total bacterial association was 55.8...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jackson AD,Cole PJ,Wilson R

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the binding of Candida albicans synchronized yeast-phase cells to plastic, immobilized amino acids and bovine serum albumin (BSA) and quantified the binding by using an XTT tetrazolium salt assay and absorbance determination. Our results show that C. albicans binds efficiently and specifical...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hawser SP,Islam K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn916 was used to insertionally inactivate a coaggregation-relevant locus of Streptococcus gordonii DL1 (Challis). One mutant (F11) was isolated that lost the ability to coaggregate with the streptococcal partners of DL1 but retained the ability to coaggregate with partners belonging to other genera. A prob...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whittaker CJ,Clemans DL,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon-inducing capabilities of the three molecular segments of bacteriophage phi6 double-stranded ribonucleic acid increased with increasing molecular weight. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kleinschmidt WJ,Van Etten JL,Vidaver AK

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of C3H mice with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, reliably produces an infectious arthritis and carditis that peak around 3 weeks postinfection and then spontaneously resolve. Macrophage polarization has been suggested to drive inflammation, the clearance of bacteria, and tissue rep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lasky CE,Olson RM,Brown CR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar bone resorption can be induced in specific-pathogen-free mice by oral infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. J. Baker, R. T. Evans, and D. C. Roopenian, Arch. Oral Biol. 39:1035-1040, 1994). Here we used a mouse strain, C57BL/6J, which is relatively resistant to P. gingivalis-induced bone loss to examine...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baker PJ,DuFour L,Dixon M,Roopenian DC

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are expensive, while global resources for TB vaccine development are limited. Therefore, there is a need for robust and predictive preclinical data to support advancement of candidate vaccines into clinical trials. Here, we provide a rationale for using the nonhuman ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Laddy DJ,Bonavia A,Hanekom WA,Kaushal D,Williams A,Roederer M,Seder RA,Sharpe S,Verreck FAW,Darrah PA

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and rat C-reactive proteins, major acute-phase reactants, bind to sporozoites and inhibit their in vitro development in hepatocytes (A. Nussler, S. Pied, M. Pontet, F. Miltgen, L. Renia, M. Gentilini, and D. Mazier, Exp. Parasitol. 72:1-7, 1991, and S. Pied, A. Nussler, M. Pontet, F. Miltgen, H. Matile, P.-H. La...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rénia L,Xia D,Samols D,Nussenzweig V

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the identification of a surface-exposed, highly conserved, immunogenic nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) protein, which elicits cross-reactive bactericidal antibodies against NTHi. The protein was extracted from NTHi strain P860295 with KSCN and purified; it migrated as a single band on a sodium d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zagursky RJ,Ooi P,Jones KF,Fiske MJ,Smith RP,Green BA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of genetic resistance or "trypanotolerance" to infection with Trypanosoma congolense were investigated in two strains of mice. One strain C57BL, is outstandingly resistant to most stabilates of T. congolense and can survive for over 80 days, whereas CFLP, in common with most other strains, generally suc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitelaw DD,Macaskill JA,Holmes PH,Jennings FW,Urquhart GM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Di-, tri-, and tetrasaccharides, synthesized according to the chemical structure of pneumococcal polysaccharide type 3 (PS3), were coupled to the cross-reactive material (CRM(197)) of modified diphtheria toxin in different molar carbohydrate/protein ratios using the squarate coupling method. To study protective immuni...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Benaissa-Trouw B,Lefeber DJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF,Kraaijeveld K,Snippe H

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1984, it has been known that spotted fever group rickettsiosis exists in Japan. We isolated three strains of the causative rickettsiae, designated Katayama, Misaka, and Abe, from patients with the disease and studied the characteristics of the isolates. Nude mice and cyclophosphamide-treated mice died after infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada T,Tange Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified protein antigens are usually poor immunogens; in practice, adjuvants are needed to obtain satisfactory immune responses. Plasmodium yoelii 19-kDa merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1(19)) is a weak antigen, but mice vaccinated with this antigen in strong adjuvants can survive an otherwise lethal parasite ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogun SA,Dumon-Seignovert L,Marchand JB,Holder AA,Hill F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fimbriae, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) all contribute to biofilm formation by the periodontopathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. To understand how individual biofilm determinants respond to changing environmental conditions, the transcription of genes responsible for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Amarasinghe JJ,Scannapieco FA,Haase EM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal subunits from Mycobacterium smegmatis were analyzed by using sedimentation velocity, sedimentation equilibrium, and acrylamide gel electrophoresis experiments. These s(20.w) values for the subunits are 48.7S and 28.1S. The molecular weight of the 49S subunit is about 1.65 x 10(6), and that of the 28S subunit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loge RV,Hill WE,Baker RE,Larson CL

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using pharmacologic and biochemical criteria, we evaluated whether uptake of four different Chlamydia trachomatis serovars, D, E, K, and L2, was dependent upon lipid rafts. Our data suggest that lipid raft-mediated entry is not required for C. trachomatis infection of cultured epithelial cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gabel BR,Elwell C,van Ijzendoorn SC,Engel JN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain Jamaica suspended in oil-droplet emulsions was used to enhance resistance of mice against encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV). The mycobacteria-injected mice were significantly resistant to 50,000 50% lethal doses of EMCV. Similar concentrations of virus in plasma of normal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lodmell DL,Ewalt LC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) can form biofilms during human and chinchilla middle ear infections. Microscopic analysis of a 5-day biofilm of NTHI strain 2019 grown in a continuous-flow chamber revealed that the biofilm had a diffuse matrix interlaced with multiple water cha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greiner LL,Watanabe H,Phillips NJ,Shao J,Morgan A,Zaleski A,Gibson BW,Apicella MA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-kDa hemolytic protein, referred to as cystalysin, from Treponema denticola ATCC 35404 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli LC-67. Both the native and recombinant 46-kDa proteins were purified to homogeneity. Both proteins expressed identical biological and functional characteristics. In addition to its biologica...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Ebersole JL,Kurzban GP,Holt SC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E protects nonimmunized and immunized mice against fatal Diplococcus pneumoniae type I (DpI) infection. A dietary supplementation of 180 mg of dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate per kg of diet increased survival of nonimmunized mice from 20 to 80% when challenged with 20 organisms, and of mice immunized with 0.5 ng o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heinzerling RH,Tengerdy RP,Wick LL,Lueker DC

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mononuclear cells from the mouse peritoneal cavity to interferon (IF)-containing mouse sera enhanced phagocytosis of colloidal carbon particles by the cells. The same effect was observed when the cells were exposed to IF-containing cell culture harvest free of serum. The magnitude of this effect of IF-cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang KY,Donahoe RM,Gordon FB,Dressler HR

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene expression and cytokine release of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) after infection of human epithelial cells (HEp-2 cells) and polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs) were investigated by using isogenic pairs of Listeria monocytogen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold R,Scheffer J,König B,König W

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00