Interleukin-12 therapy reduces the number of immune cells and pathology in lungs of mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：:The 260-kDa galactose-inhibitable lectin of Entamoeba histolytica mediates binding of amebic trophozoites to purified colonic mucins and intestinal epithelial cells. Parenteral immunization of Lewis rats with immuno-affinity-purified lectin with Freund's adjuvant and then intra-Peyer's patch inoculation of lectin with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kelsall BL,Ravdin JI

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the effect of periodontal therapy on specific serum antibody concentration, expressed as titer, and antibody binding strength, expressed as relative avidity. The immune responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans were investigated. Antibody titer was assayed by en...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mooney J,Adonogianaki E,Riggio MP,Takahashi K,Haerian A,Kinane DF

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the selective abilities of bacteria to adhere and their predilections for colonizing different mammalian hosts was investigated by using bacteria indigenous to the tongue dorsum of humans and rats as models. Streptococcus salivarius and S. sanguis averaged 22.6 and 2.8%, respectively, of the c...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gibbons RJ,Spinell DM,Skobe Z

更新日期：1976-01-01 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

abstract：:Respiratory epithelial cells play an active part in the host response to respiratory pathogens, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, by releasing chemokines responsible for neutrophil recruitment. In order to investigate the role of specific pneumococcal virulence factors in eliciting CXC chemokine responses, type II pne...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Graham RM,Paton JC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of Garra and Baygorria, for localized antibody production, has been adapted for obtaining high-titered and monospecific antibodies against the murine toxin of Yersinia pestis. A hollow, perforated plastic golf ball surgically implanted under the skin of rabbits induced the formation of a granuloma. When the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hillam RP,Tengerdy RP,Brown GL

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse lacking CD28, a T-cell costimulatory molecule, and STAT6, a transcription factor that mediates interleukin-4 (IL-4) signaling, was developed from parental CD28- and STAT6-deficient mice. STAT6/CD28(-/-) BALB/c mice that were 8 weeks old had a normal phenotype, and IL-4 production was induced following infectio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liu Q,Arseculeratne C,Liu Z,Whitmire J,Grusby MJ,Finkelman FD,Darling TN,Cheever AW,Swearengen J,Urban JF,Gause WC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse spleen cells which normally cannot support the in vivo replication of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) became susceptible to VSV infection after the intraperitoneal growth of certain syngeneic and allogeneic tumors. After 3 days' growth of P815 tumor cells in syngeneic DBA/2 mice, the viral-permissive state for ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hecht TT,Paul WE

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, autoaggregates within a few minutes of cessation of shaking when grown at 28 degrees C. To identify the autoaggregation factor of Y. pestis, we performed mariner-based transposon mutagenesis. Autoaggregation-defective mutants from three different pools were identified, e...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Felek S,Muszyński A,Carlson RW,Tsang TM,Hinnebusch BJ,Krukonis ES

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional adult mice were pretreated with metronidazole to make their intestinal tracts receptive to colonization by Clostridium botulinum. These mice, in groups of 10, were fed 0 (controls), 10(2), 10(3), 10(4), or 10(5) C. botulinum type B spores and were placed for observation in filter-lid cages whose screen fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang Y,Sugiyama H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Re mutant of Salmonella minnesota adheres in much greater numbers than the wild type to endothelial cells derived from the bovine pulmonary artery. Since the Re mutant is distinguished from wild-type S. minnesota by its ability to bind C1q and since endothelial cells possess receptors for C1q, we examined the role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan US,Schultz DR,Goodwin JD,Vann JM,Selvaraj MP,Hart MA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57BL/6 mice were infected intravenously with 6 X 10(3) Listeria monocytogenes organisms. As early as day 3 of infection, there was a marked reduction in the number of lymphocytes recovered from the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and thymuses of infected animals. Concomitantly, there was an increase in the number of s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watson SR,Redington TJ,Miller TB,Bullock WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

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：:All of the Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated from diseased animals (61 strains) and from beef (2 strains) in Japan and in West Germany (1 strain), except for 2 strains isolated from ducks, harbored either a 36-megadalton (Md) plasmid alone or in combination with several other plasmids of different sizes. It is l...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakamura M,Sato S,Ohya T,Suzuki S,Ikeda S

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an in vitro model to study the temperature-regulated cytotoxicity and intracellular growth of Mycobacterium haemophilum in cultured human epithelial and endothelial cells. M. haemophilum associated with human epithelial and endothelial cells at similar rates when incubated at 33 and 37 degrees C, but only...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fischer LJ,Quinn FD,White EH,King CH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays a key role in resistance to cryptococcosis. In the present study, we examined several factors that influence the binding of C3 cleavage fragments to Cryptococcus neoformans. Binding of C3 was determined by using normal human serum supplemented with 125I-labeled C3. Incubation of encapsulate...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Pfrommer GS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impressive change in the epidemiology and severity of invasive group A streptococcal infections occurred in the 1980s, and the incidence of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome cases continues to rise. The reason for the resurgence of severe invasive cases remains a mystery-has there been a change in the pathogen or ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Basma H,Norrby-Teglund A,Guedez Y,McGeer A,Low DE,El-Ahmedy O,Schwartz B,Kotb M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenically conserved proteins of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum and four nonpathogenic cultivatable treponemes were investigated by phase partitioning with the nonionic detergent Triton X-114 and immunoblot analysis. None of the T. pallidum integral membrane proteins identified by phase partitioning (deterg...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to characterize the properties of the interaction of pertussis toxin with human polymorphonuclear leukocytes for the modulation of leukotriene generation and metabolism. The cells were stimulated with either the Ca ionophore A23187, opsonized zymosan, or the bacterial peptide formyl-methio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Raulf M,Megret F,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-colony variants (SCVs) are slow-growing variants of human bacterial pathogens. They are associated with chronic persistent infections, and their biochemical identification and antimicrobial treatment are impaired by altered metabolic properties. To contribute to the understanding of SCV-mediated infections, we a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roggenkamp A,Hoffmann H,Hornef MW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium that causes a range of diseases in humans, including lethal gas gangrene. We have recently shown that strains of C. perfringens move across the surface of agar plates by a unique type IV pilus (TFP)-mediated social motility that had not been previously d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodgers K,Arvidson CG,Melville S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice receiving a single injection of cyclophosphamide (150 mg/kg) 1 to 6 days before inoculation with viable Candida albicans showed an increased susceptibility to the challenge accompanied by a reduction in peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes and lymphocytes as well as in spleen cellularity. Several immunol...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bistoni F,Baccarini M,Blasi E,Marconi P,Puccetti P,Garaci E

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) is a secreted protein that induces vacuolation of epithelial cells. To study VacA structure and function, we immunized mice with purified type s1-m1 VacA from H. pylori strain 60190 and generated a panel of 10 immunoglobulin G1kappa anti-VacA monoclonal antibodies. All ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vinion-Dubiel AD,McClain MS,Cao P,Mernaugh RL,Cover TL

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To look for a possible correlation between the virulence of Rhodococcus equi and its cytokine-inducing capacity, we evaluated intracellular survival and measured cytokine induction by mouse macrophages infected with a virulent strain containing an 85-kb plasmid and expressing VapA (103+), its avirulent plasmid-cured d...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giguère S,Prescott JF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-necked pheasant virus, an avian leukosis virus, when injected into 10-day old chick embryos, caused angiosarcomas in the lungs of infected chickens within a short time. Angiosarcomas appeared as localized foci of proliferating cells in the lungs as early as 2 weeks posthatch, and by 6 weeks, the lungs of the infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carter JK,Proctor SJ,Smith RE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbicidal myeloperoxidase (MPO)-H2O2-chloride system strongly inhibits Escherichia coli DNA synthesis. Also, cell envelopes from MPO-treated E. coli cells lose their ability to interact with hemimethylated DNA sequences of oriC, the chromosomal origin of replication, raising the prospect that suppression of DNA...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosen H,Michel BR,vanDevanter DR,Hughes JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to Escherichia coli O and K antigens were raised in rabbits by repeated immunizations with whole, Formalin-killed and, later, liver bacteria. The serum antibody levels were determined with the ammonium sulfate precipitation technique after radioiodinating the antigens. The K antigens had to be conjugated to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaijser B,Ahlstedt S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein I (OprI) is one of the major proteins of the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. OprI is a candidate for a vaccine against P. aeruginosa, because it cross-reacts antigenically in all serotype strains of the International Antigenic Typing Scheme. We recently cloned and expressed the gene coding for Op...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finke M,Duchêne M,Eckhardt A,Domdey H,von Specht BU

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a disease of polymicrobial etiology characterized by inflammation, degradation of host tissue, and bone that irreversibly destroys the supporting apparatus of teeth. Porphyromonas gingivalis contains lipid A with structural heterogeneity that has been postulated to contribute to the initiation of dysb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zenobia C,Hasturk H,Nguyen D,Van Dyke TE,Kantarci A,Darveau RP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by an antiphagocytic polysaccharide capsule whose primary constituent is glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). Three prominent structural features of GXM are single xylosyl and glucuronosyl side chains and O acetylation of the mannose backbone. Isogenic pairs of O-acetyl-positive and O-acety...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,Levitz SM,Dromer F,Gates MA,Thorkildson P,Janbon G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00