Cell wall-mediated neuronal damage in early sepsis.

abstract：:The mechanism of complement-mediated killing of seven serum-sensitive Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains was examined. All seven strains were sensitive to the bactericidal activity of 20% pooled normal human serum (PNHS) containing magnesium EGTA, which blocks the classical complement pathway (CCP), or 20% PNHS preheated ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schiller NL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of inbred mouse strains with Borrelia burgdorferi results in the development of experimental Lyme arthritis. The degree of arthritic pathology has been suggested to correlate with the level of spirochete burden within tissues. To investigate this further, we infected resistant DBA/2 (DBA) and susceptible C3H...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown CR,Reiner SL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDM) and J774 cells (murine macrophage cell line) with several enteroaggregative and cytodetaching Escherichia coli (EAggEC and CDEC, respectively) strains demonstrated that some strains could induce macrophage cell death accompanied by release of lactate dehydrogenase...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Prada C,Tall BD,Elliott SE,Hoover DL,Nataro JP,Venkatesan MM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Candida species yeast cells to bovine and human endothelium was measured. The adherence phenomenon is a saturable event which can be altered by the release of prostaglandin I2 (PGI2 or prostacyclin) by endothelial cells. Release of PGI2 by endothelium has a protective effect, reducing Candida albicans...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klotz SA

更新日期：1994-04-01 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 effects of heat and chemical inactivation on the antigenicity and immunogenicity of Vibrio cholerae 1418 in rabbits were studied. V. cholerae 1418 was inactivated with heat and chemical inactivants (phenol or Formalin) alone or in combination. Enzyme-linked immunoassay systems employing whole cells of V. cholerae ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cryz SJ Jr,Fürer E,Germanier R

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of coccidioidomycosis depends to a large extent on the effectiveness of the T-cell-mediated immune (CMI) response to the fungal pathogen. For this reason, identification of Coccidioides immitis antigens which stimulate T cells is important for understanding the nature of host defense against the organism a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirkland TN,Thomas PW,Finley F,Cole GT

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain if Cryptococcus neoformans components can induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, we stimulated human whole blood with purified capsular products. Their potencies in stimulating IL-6 release were mannoproteins > galactoxylomannan = glucuronoxylomannan > alpha(1-3)glucan. IL-6 production was tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delfino D,Cianci L,Lupis E,Celeste A,Petrelli ML,Curró F,Cusumano V,Teti G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) plays an important role in experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections, presumably by controlling the early replication of parasites in host macrophages. In this work, we show that NK cells represent an important cell type responsible for the production of most of the IFN-gamma in the early ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cardillo F,Voltarelli JC,Reed SG,Silva JS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental Helicobacter pylori infection was studied in Mongolian gerbils with fresh human isolates that carry or do not carry cagA (cagA-positive or cagA-negative, respectively), multiply passaged laboratory strains, wild-type strain G1.1, or isogenic ureA, cagA, or vacA mutants of G1.1. Animals were sacrificed 1 t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wirth HP,Beins MH,Yang M,Tham KT,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immunobiologically active fraction was prepared from a phenol-water extract of Prevotella intermedia ATCC 25611 by Sephadex G-100 column chromatography. The fraction consisted mainly of carbohydrate and protein and was devoid of fatty acid. The fraction showed high-molecular-weight bands (10,000 to 12,000) on ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Iki K,Kawahara K,Sawamura S,Arakaki R,Sakuta T,Sugiyama A,Tamura H,Sueda T,Hamada S,Takada H

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 causes a diarrheagenic infection in rabbits with AF/R1 fimbriae, which have been identified as an important colonization factor in RDEC-1 adherence leading to disease. The AF/R1-mediated RDEC-1 adherence model has been used as a model systems for E. coli diarrheal diseases. In this study...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryu H,Kim YS,Grange PA,Cassels FJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaesserella (Haemophilus) parasuis is a commensal bacterium of the upper respiratory tract in pigs and also the causative agent of Glässer's disease, which causes significant morbidity and mortality in pigs worldwide. Isolates are characterized into 15 serovars by their capsular polysaccharide, which has shown a corr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eberle KC,Hau SJ,Luan SL,Weinert LA,Stasko JA,Wang J,Peters SE,Langford PR,Rycroft AN,Wren BW,Maskell DJ,Tucker AW,Brockmeier SL

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis, a common agent of nosocomially acquired and catheter-associated urinary tract infection, is the most frequent cause of infection-induced bladder and kidney stones. Urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis initiates stone formation in urine and can be inhibited by acetohydroxamic acid and other structural an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nicholson EB,Concaugh EA,Mobley HL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit endogenous pyrogens were of about the same molecular size, but showed considerable heterogeneity of their isoelectric points. We attempted to show that this heterogeneity was attributable to variable glycosylation of a single polypeptide chain. When peritoneal exudate cells were stimulated to make pyrogens in t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy PA,Cebula TA,Windle BE

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a fermentative microorganism and causes serious diseases in humans, including otitis media, bacteremia, meningitis, and pneumonia. However, the mechanisms enabling pneumococcal survival in the host and causing disease in different tissues are incompletely understood. The available evidence ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gaspar P,Al-Bayati FA,Andrew PW,Neves AR,Yesilkaya H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and expression of Ac-GST-1, a novel glutathione S-transferase from the adult hookworm Ancylostoma caninum, and its possible role in parasite blood feeding and as a vaccine target. The predicted Ac-GST-1 open reading frame contains 207 amino acids (mass, 24 kDa) and exhibited up to 65% amino acid ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhan B,Liu S,Perally S,Xue J,Fujiwara R,Brophy P,Xiao S,Liu Y,Feng J,Williamson A,Wang Y,Bueno LL,Mendez S,Goud G,Bethony JM,Hawdon JM,Loukas A,Jones K,Hotez PJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum at low concentrations inhibits the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro. Fractionation of serum yielded a purified inhibitory protein with a molecular mass of approximately 81.8 kDa, a pI of approximately 6.2, and an amino acid sequence that matched that of human transferrin. The inhibitory activity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sridhar S,Ahluwalia M,Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori strains frequently express Lewis X (Le(x)) and/or Le(y) on their cell surfaces as constituents of the O antigens of their lipopolysaccharide molecules. To assess the effect of Le(x) and Le(y) expression on the ability of H. pylori to colonize the mouse stomach and to adhere to epithelial cells, iso...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takata T,El-Omar E,Camorlinga M,Thompson SA,Minohara Y,Ernst PB,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum has previously been isolated from the cultured cerebrospinal fluid of 13 of 418 newborn infants; additional bloodstream isolates were obtained from the same population. Ten of the 13 cerebrospinal fluid and 3 bloodstream isolates were available for serotyping in the present study. By the use of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zheng X,Watson HL,Waites KB,Cassell GH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) remains an enormous global health problem, and a new vaccine against TB more potent than the current inadequate vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis BCG, is urgently needed. We describe a recombinant BCG vaccine (rBCG30) expressing and secreting the 30-kDa major secretory protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Horwitz MA,Harth G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic peptides and murine monoclonal antibodies were used to map cross-reactive chlamydial epitopes. A species-specific epitope in the central region of variable sequence region 4 abuts the amino-terminal end of a B-serogroup-specific or F/G-serogroup-specific epitope, which in turn abuts known serovar-specific ep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Batteiger BE,Lin PM,Jones RB,Van Der Pol BJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus experimental endocarditis relies on sequential fibrinogen binding (for valve colonization) and fibronectin binding (for endothelial invasion) conferred by peptidoglycan-attached adhesins. Fibronectin-binding protein A (FnBPA) reconciles these two properties--as well as elastin binding--and promot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Piroth L,Que YA,Widmer E,Panchaud A,Piu S,Entenza JM,Moreillon P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multigene family of 58- to 60-kDa proteins, which are designated rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) and which come from the parasites Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis, is a target for vaccine development. The presence of multiple gene copies and conserved sequences and epitopes of RAP-1 implies that these protei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodríguez SD,Palmer GH,McElwain TF,McGuire TC,Ruef BJ,Chitko-McKown MG,Brown WC

更新日期：1996-06-01 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

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular gram-negative bacterium and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME). Although E. chaffeensis induces the generation of several cytokines and chemokines by leukocytes, E. chaffeensis lacks lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan. Bioinfomatic analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang H,Lin M,Wang X,Kikuchi T,Mottaz H,Norbeck A,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of a persistent-state measles virus infection in BGM/MV cells were examined. The BGM/MV cell line was established by cocultivation of measles virus-infected primary C3H mouse brain cells with a stable line of African green monkey kidney cells (BGM). Initially, a morphologically mixed population of cells...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Menna JH,Collins AR,Flanagan TD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cytolysis was measured by release of absorbed radioactive chromium from infected cells that were incubated with antiviral antibody and complement. The presence of virus-specific antigens detected in this manner on the surface of several types of cells infected with Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus did not corre...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brandt WE,Russell PK

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major outer membrane protein (P2) of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) with an apparent molecular weight of 37,000 to 40,000 has been previously shown to function as a porin and also as a target for antibodies protective against experimental Hib disease. The gene encoding the Hib P2 protein was cloned by using a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Gonzales FR,Chamberlain NR,Norgard MV,Miller EE,Cope LD,Pelzel SE,Gaddy B,Clausell A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00