Identification and characterization of a surface-associated protein (Ssp) of Staphylococcus saprophyticus.

abstract：:[1-(14)C]acetate is incorporated into lipids more rapidly by liver from Aeromonas salmonicida-infected trout than by normal trout liver, both in vitro and in vivo. The increase was, in general, about twofold to less than threefold. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shieh HS

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin caused a 26 to 41% reduction in the rate of oxygen consumption by rat liver mitochondria when various tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates were used as substrate. However, P/O ratios were unaltered. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonel JL,Duncan CL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera enterotoxin and the related heat-labile enterotoxins of Escherichia coli enter their target cells through noncoated vesicles, but how the toxins are processed intracellularly and how they get to their targeted enzyme, adenylate cyclase, remain to be defined. Brefeldin A, an inhibitor of the trans-Golgi network...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Donta ST,Beristain S,Tomicic TK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an in vitro assay to study the intramacrophage replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis BCG. In this assay, extracellular mycobacterial replication was avoided by using a small infecting inoculum and a new method for efficiently removing nonphagocytocytized bacilli. The abilit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zlotnik A,Crowle AJ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a by-product of glycerol metabolism in mycoplasmas and has been shown to cause cytotoxicity for cocultured eukaryotic cells. There appears to be selective pressure for mycoplasmas to retain the genes needed for glycerol metabolism. This has generated interest and speculation as to their fun...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Szczepanek SM,Boccaccio M,Pflaum K,Liao X,Geary SJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) initiates infection by colonizing the upper respiratory tract and is a common cause of localized respiratory tract disease. Previous work has established that the NTHi HMW1 and HMW2 proteins are potent adhesins that mediate efficient in vitro adherence to cultured human respir...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rempe KA,Porsch EA,Wilson JM,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A defect in lymphocyte function could be responsible for persistent infection by the equine infectious anemia virus. The number of lymphocytes bearing surface immunoglobulin, as detected by immunofluorescence, and lymphocyte response to mitogens were the same in uninfected and equine infectious anemia-infected animals...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Banks KL,Henson JB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) appears to cause intestinal fluid secretion by activating intestinal particulate guanylate cyclase. Recent studies suggest that chlorpromazine and quinacrine reduce the intestinal secretory response to ST and activation of guanylate cyclase by ST. We have examined the effe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Greenberg RN,Murad F,Guerrant RL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subchronic exposure to pharmacological levels of estrogenic compounds, including 17 beta-estradiol, diethylstilbestrol, and alpha-dienestrol, significantly increased the mortality of B6C3F1 female mice after Listeria infection. Compounds with little estrogenic activity, including 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, progester...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pung OJ,Luster MI,Hayes HT,Rader J

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of neutrophils causes the release of a cytoplasmic protein which can inhibit the growth of Candida albicans without killing the organisms. The present study was undertaken with a combined system in which candidacidal and candidastatic activities of human neutrophils could be compared. In this system it was ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sohnle PG,Collins-Lech C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because combined administration of intramuscular and intravenous interferon has been partially successful in the incubationary treatment of rabies, the effect of direct interferon administration into the cerebrospinal fluid space was tested. After injecting 1,800 U of interferon into the cisterna magna or the lateral ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ho M,Nash C,Morgan CW,Armstrong JA,Carroll RG,Postic B

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bacteroides fragilis associated with diarrhea in children (termed enterotoxigenic B. fragilis, or ETBF) produce a heat-labile ca. 20-kDa protein toxin (BFT). The purpose of this study was to examine the activity of BFT on polarized monolayers of human intestinal epithelial cells (T84 cells). In Ussing chamb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chambers FG,Koshy SS,Saidi RF,Clark DP,Moore RD,Sears CL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placenta-sequestering Plasmodium falciparum involved in the pathogenesis of pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) in otherwise clinically immune women expresses particular variant surface antigens (VSA(PAM)) on the surface of infected erythrocytes that differ from VSA found in parasitized nonpregnant individuals (non-PAM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Megnekou R,Staalsoe T,Taylor DW,Leke R,Hviid L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of relevant and useful animal models is critical for progress in the development of effective vaccines and therapeutics. The infection of rabbits and non-human primates with fully virulent Bacillus anthracis spores provides two excellent models of anthrax disease. However, the high cost of procuring a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loving CL,Kennett M,Lee GM,Grippe VK,Merkel TJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is considered an extracellular pathogen. Using assays to determine intracellular survival in the presence of gentamicin, we have demonstrated that some strains of P. aeruginosa are able to invade corneal cells during experimental bacterial keratitis in mice. Although intracellular bacteria were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Zaidi TS,Fletcher EL,Preston MJ,Pier GB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has a unique segmented genome consisting of numerous linear and circular plasmids and a linear chromosome. Many of these genetic elements have been found to encode factors critical for B. burgdorferi to complete the infectious cycle. However, several plasmi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dulebohn DP,Bestor A,Rosa PA

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:gammadelta T cells are considered crucial to the outcome of various infectious diseases. The present study was undertaken to characterize gammadelta (T-cell receptor 1(+) [TCR1(+)]) T cells phenotypically and functionally in avian immune response. Day-old chicks were orally immunized with Salmonella enterica serovar E...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berndt A,Pieper J,Methner U

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of a sonic extract of Capnocytophaga sputigena to the culture fluid to human fibroblasts resulted in an inhibition of cell proliferation. The inhibition was dose-related (200 micrograms/ml caused a 90% inhibition, and 1,000 micrograms/ml caused a complete cessation of growth). The growth inhibition was no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens RH,Sela MN,Shapira J,Hammond BF

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin binding proteins are one of several pathogenicity factors which have been associated with invasive disease caused by group A streptococci. The surface-bound M and M-like proteins of Streptococcus pyogenes are the most characterized of these immunoglobulin binding proteins, and in most cases they bind on...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fagan PK,Reinscheid D,Gottschalk B,Chhatwal GS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin 8 (IL-8), IL-6, IL-1 alpha, and IL-1 beta produced during the immune and inflammatory responses to bacterial stimuli have been reported to interact with polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elbim C,Bailly S,Chollet-Martin S,Hakim J,Gougerot-Pocidalo MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble hemagglutinin/protease produced by Vibrio cholerae, which has previously been shown to hydrolyze fibronectin and ovomucin and to cleave lactoferrin and the A subunit of the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli, appears to be a zinc metalloendopeptidase. Both its hemagglutinative and protease functions...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Booth BA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Finkelstein RA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen that causes gastritis and is strongly associated with gastric ulcers, gastric adenocarcinomas, and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. In response to H. pylori, interleukin-8 (IL-8) is secreted from host cells to attract components of the innate and adaptive ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torok AM,Bouton AH,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), including secretory goblet cells, form essential physiochemical barriers that separate luminal bacteria from underlying immune cells in the intestinal mucosa. IECs are common targets for enteric bacterial pathogens, with hosts responding to these microbes through innate toll-like re...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhinder G,Stahl M,Sham HP,Crowley SM,Morampudi V,Dalwadi U,Ma C,Jacobson K,Vallance BA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) belongs to the Shiga family of bipartite AB toxins that inactivate eukaryotic 60S ribosomes. The A subunit of Stxs are N-glycosidases that share structural and functional features in their catalytic center and in an internal hydrophobic region that shows strong transmembrane propensity. Both ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suhan ML,Hovde CJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial heat shock proteins (HSP) are dominant antigens for the host immune response. Because of the high sequence homology between mammalian and microbial HSP, their value as component of a subunit vaccine has been the subject of controversy. Previous work from this laboratory, however, demonstrated for the first t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noll A,AutenriethIB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact tissues are relatively resistant to Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced disease, and injury predisposes tissue to infection. Intact epithelia contain polarized cells that have distinct apical and basolateral membranes with unique lipids and proteins. In this study, the role of cell polarity in epithelial cell suscep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Evans DJ,Do N,Vallas V,Shin S,Mostov KE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo accumulation of D-serine by Escherichia coli CFT073 leads to elevated expression of PAP fimbriae and hemolysin by an unknown mechanism. Loss of D-serine catabolism by CFT073 leads to a competitive advantage during murine urinary tract infection (UTI), but loss of both D- and L-serine catabolism results in atte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Anfora AT,Halladin DK,Haugen BJ,Welch RA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) is a potent adjuvant for mucosal vaccination; however, its mechanism of action has not been clarified completely. It is well established that peripheral monocytes differentiate into dendritic cells (DCs) both in vitro and in vivo and that monocytes are the in vivo precursors of mucosal CD103(-) proi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Veglia F,Sciaraffia E,Riccomi A,Pinto D,Negri DR,De Magistris MT,Vendetti S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is rising in the developing world due to poor health care, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection, and the low protective efficacy of the Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine. A new vaccination strategy that could protect adults in the developing world from tuberculosis could have a huge impact on publi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Williams A,Goonetilleke NP,McShane H,Clark SO,Hatch G,Gilbert SC,Hill AV

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00