Human galectin-3 promotes Trypanosoma cruzi adhesion to human coronary artery smooth muscle cells.

abstract：:To identify potential vaccine candidates for the prevention of infection with the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus, we screened an O. volvulus L3 stage cDNA library with sera from putatively immune (PI) subjects, and a prominent immunogenic clone of 1,184 nucleotides was identified. It contained an open reading f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCarthy JS,Wieseman M,Tropea J,Kaslow D,Abraham D,Lustigman S,Tuan R,Guderian RH,Nutman TB

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several bacterial species recruit the complement regulators C4b-binding protein, factor H, and vitronectin, resulting in resistance against the bactericidal activity of human serum. It was recently demonstrated that bacteria also bind plasminogen, which is converted to plasmin that degrades C3b and C5. In this study, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Singh B,Al-Jubair T,Voraganti C,Andersson T,Mukherjee O,Su YC,Zipfel P,Riesbeck K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data presented indicate that in experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of mice, protease enhances the virulence of the organism. Anesthetized CBA/Lü mice were subjected to a 15-s flame burn and infected with a wild-type protease-producing strain and two of its protease-deficient mutants. The average bacteri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pavlovskis OR,Wretlind B

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of PAM cells, a spontaneously transformed mouse cell line, to brain homogenates from mice infected with scrapie caused a relative decrease in total cell yield, which persisted from passage 2 or 3 to passage 18 after treatment. The effect was elicited by each of the eight independent scrapie isolates tested. L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carp RI,Merz GS,Licursi PC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagosome acidification is an important component of the microbicidal response by infected eukaryotic cells. Thus, intracellular pathogens that reside within phagosomes must either block phagosome acidification or be able to survive at low pH. In this work, we studied the effect of phagosomal acidification on the surv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Steele-Mortimer O,St-Louis M,Olivier M,Finlay BB

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-phase variants and small colony (G-phase) variants derived from penicillinase-producing Staphylococcus aureus strains were tested for penicillinase (beta lactamase) production. A refined variation of the modified Gots test for penicillinase was used to demonstrate penicillinase synthesis. Penicillinase synthesis was...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Simon HJ,Yin EJ

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of O-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysacchar...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farley MM,Shafer WM,Spitznagel JK

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that transcription of the Staphylococcus aureus collagen adhesin gene (cna) is temporally regulated, with expression being highest in exponentially growing cultures and falling to almost undetectable levels as cultures enter the post-exponential-growth phase. The temporal regulation of cna transcription...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gillaspy AF,Patti JM,Smeltzer MS

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections represent an increasing problem associated with high mortality. The present study was undertaken to identify leukocyte subsets that are activated by hyphal fragments in a whole-human-blood model, as well as to examine the involvement of CD14 and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in activation of mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang JE,Warris A,Ellingsen EA,Jørgensen PF,Flo TH,Espevik T,Solberg R,Verweij PE,Aasen AO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutralizing antibodies were raised in mice that had been inoculated repeatedly with moderate quantities of human leukocyte interferon highly purified by affinity chromatography on immobilized anti-interferon globulins. Interferon preparations of lesser purity sensitized the mice to subsequent inoculations of interfer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dalton BJ,Ogburn CA,Paucker K

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 23-membered Esx protein family is involved in the host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These secreted proteins are among the most immunodominant antigens recognized by the human immune system and have thus been used to develop vaccines and immunodiagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB). Gene pai...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Uplekar S,Heym B,Friocourt V,Rougemont J,Cole ST

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum serotype A produces a neurotoxin composed of a 100-kDa heavy chain and a 50-kDa light chain linked by a disulfide bond. This neurotoxin is part of a ca. 900-kDa complex, formed by noncovalent association with a single nontoxin, nonhemagglutinin subunit and a family of hemagglutinating proteins. P...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maksymowych AB,Reinhard M,Malizio CJ,Goodnough MC,Johnson EA,Simpson LL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representative strains of oral streptococci were tested for Fc immunoglobulin G (IgG) reactivity by two different techniques, agglutination of rabbit-IgG sensitized sheep erythrocytes and uptake of human and rabbit 125I-radiolabeled IgG. None of the S. mutans serotypes a through e reacted with the Fc region of either ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shea C,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of complement in pneumococcal and staphylococcal pneumonia, we decomplemented rats with cobra venom factor and inoculated them intratracheally with Staphylococcus aureus or type 25 pneumococci. S. aureus produced a patchy bronchopneumonia in normal Sprague-Dawley or Lewis rats, and decomplementati...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coonrod JD,Yoneda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a model of experimental Chagas' disease induced with metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells undergo T-cell receptor (TCR)-CD3-mediated activation-induced cell death (AICD) in vitro. CD4+ T cells from T. cruzi-infected mice also developed unresponsiveness in proliferative responses to TCR-C...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lopes MF,DosReis GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urogenital Chlamydia serovars replicating in reproductive epithelium pose a unique challenge to host immunity and vaccine development. Previous studies have shown that CD4 T cells are necessary and sufficient to clear primary Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infections in the mouse model, making a protective CD4 T ce...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RM,Yu H,Kerr MS,Slaven JE,Karunakaran KP,Brunham RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two proteins, HifD and HifE, have been identified as structural components of Haemophilus influenzae pili. Both are localized at the pilus tip, and HifE appears to mediate pilus adherence to host cells. In this study we examined the immunologic and structural diversity of these pilus subunits among type b H. influenza...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCrea KW,Sauver JL,Marrs CF,Clemans D,Gilsdorf JR

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune mechanism by which hamsters acquire resistance to infection with Treponema pertenue, the causative agent of frambesia, or yaws, has not been elucidated. Serum or cells (spleen or lymph node) obtained from hamsters resistant to frambesial infection were transferred to normal syngenic recipients, who are subs...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schell RF,Le Frock JL,Babu JP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contributions of the alternative sigma factor sigmaB to Listeria monocytogenes infection were investigated using strains bearing null mutations in sigB, prfA, or inlA or in selected inlA or prfA promoter regions. The DeltaP4inlA strain, which has a deletion in the sigmaB-dependent P4inlA promoter, and the DeltasigB st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garner MR,Njaa BL,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a monoclonal antibody directed against the ferric complex of aerobactin purified from Escherichia coli KH576. This antibody, which we designated MAb AERO1, was identified as an immunoglobulin G, subtype 2. A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with MAb AERO1 had a limit of 10 nM for the detection...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： le Roy D,Expert D,Razafindratsita A,Deroussent A,Cosme J,Bohuon C,Andremont A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mice infected at birth with 10(7) 50% tissue culture infective doses of polyoma virus were mated when at least 6 weeks old. Polyoma was not detected in any tissues of 27 female mice before mating except for trace amounts in the kidneys of 2 mice, but late in gestation polyoma virus could be found in the kidneys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCance DJ,Mims CA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, a causative agent of whooping cough, expresses BrkA, which confers serum resistance, but the closely related human pathogen that also causes whooping cough, Bordetella parapertussis, does not. Interestingly, B. parapertussis, but not B. pertussis, produces an O antigen, a factor shown in other mo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Goebel EM,Wolfe DN,Elder K,Stibitz S,Harvill ET

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice given Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli via the respiratory route succumbed much sooner to infection than mice given 1,000 times more bacilli via the intravenous route. Vaccination provided increased protection to an M. tuberculosis challenge infection; however, mice infected via the respiratory route remained m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： North RJ,LaCourse R,Ryan L

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is one of the pathogens most frequently isolated in device-related infections. S. aureus is equipped with surface-associated proteins promoting specific binding to matrix molecules. Clumping factor A (ClfA, encoded by clfA) mediates adhesion to fibrinogen. Whereas the contribution of ClfA to path...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolz C,Goerke C,Landmann R,Zimmerli W,Fluckiger U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic relationship of glucosyltransferases (GTF) produced by different serotypes of Streptococcus mutans was studied by using a functional inhibition assay. Rat, rabbit, or hamster immune fluids, directed to cell-associated or supernatant-derived GTF, were tested against ammonium sulfate-precipitated culture s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed the requirement of both T cells and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-producing non-T cells for the genetic resistance of BALB/c mice to the development of toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE). In order to define the role of IFN-gamma production and the perforin-mediated cytotoxicity of T cells in this resist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wang X,Kang H,Kikuchi T,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit synovial cells (SC), articular chondrocytes (AC), and epiphyseal (EC) chondrocytes were grown in vitro. A portion of the spectrum of human pathogenic viruses infective for the cells was determined. Responses of the cells to different viruses or a chemical inducer of interferon varied, with EC responding vigorou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig CP,Gordon SL,Greer RB

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi is the causative agent of strangles, the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses worldwide. The disease is characterized by abscessation and swelling of the lymph nodes of the head and neck, which can literally strangle the horse to death. S. equi produces four recently acquired phage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paillot R,Robinson C,Steward K,Wright N,Jourdan T,Butcher N,Heather Z,Waller AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an opportunistic bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa mainly affects immunocompromised individuals as well as patients with cystic fibrosis. In a previous study, we showed that ExoS of P. aeruginosa, when injected into host cells through a type III secretion apparatus, functions as an effector molecule to tri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jia J,Alaoui-El-Azher M,Chow M,Chambers TC,Baker H,Jin S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihistoplasma activity of recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma)-treated macrophages of the RAW 264.7 cell line depends on the generation of nitric oxide (NO.) from L-arginine. Macrophages of the P388D1 cell line treated with rMuIFN-gamma do not produce NO. or inhibit the intracellular growth of Hist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lane TE,Otero GC,Wu-Hsieh BA,Howard DH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00