Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha, and RANTES recruit macrophages to the kidney in a mouse model of hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

abstract：:The mechanism by which recombinant murine gamma interferon (rMuIFN-gamma) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activate mouse resident splenic macrophages to inhibit the intracellular growth of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum was examined. Growth inhibition depended on L-arginine metabolism. The growth inhibitory ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

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

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:The purpose of this investigation was to examine gamma interferon potentiation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) responses in human monocytes by using phenol-water-extracted (unfractionated) and highly purified LPS preparations isolated from Bacteroides intermedius and Salmonella typhimurium. Phenol-water-extracted LPS prep...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nichols FC,Peluso JF,Tempro PJ,Garrison SW,Payne JB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated polysaccharide vaccines protect against serogroup C meningococci. However, this approach cannot be applied to serogroup B, which is still a major cause of meningitis. We evaluated the immunogenicity of three surface-exposed proteins from serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis (App, NhhA, and NadA) identified du...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bowe F,Lavelle EC,McNeela EA,Hale C,Clare S,Arico B,Giuliani MM,Rae A,Huett A,Rappuoli R,Dougan G,Mills KH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of radioisotope-labeled Mycoplasma pneumoniae to hamster tracheal rings in organ culture was examined by radioautography and liquid scintillation counting. Radioautographs of individual rings exposed for 8 h to (3H) thymidine-labeled virulent M. pneumoniae revealed a dense extracellular collection of em...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Powell DA,Hu PC,Wilson M,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Eimeria vermiformis within cultured murine fibroblastlike (L-929) or rat epithelial-like (RATEC) cells was inhibited by treatment of the cells with the appropriate recombinant gamma interferon. The effect was apparent as a reduction in both the initial numbers of intracellular sporozoites and, to a much ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Smith AL,Wakelin D

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic species of the spotted fever group Rickettsia are subjected to repeated exposures to the host complement system through cyclic infections of mammalian and tick hosts. The serum complement machinery is a formidable obstacle for bacteria to overcome if they endeavor to endure this endozoonotic cycle. We have ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Riley SP,Patterson JL,Martinez JJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least five proteins are secreted extracellularly by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), a leading cause of infant diarrhea in developing countries. However only one, EspC, is known to be secreted independently of the type III secretion apparatus encoded by genes located within the 35.6-kb locus of enterocyte ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mellies JL,Navarro-Garcia F,Okeke I,Frederickson J,Nataro JP,Kaper JB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic Escherichia coli lipid A and synthetic S-[2,3-bis-(palmitoyloxy)propyl]-N-palmitoylpentapeptide (tripalmitoyl pentapeptide [TPP]), representing the mitogenically active principles of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and lipoprotein, respectively, were compared for their mitogenic activities on splenocytes ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Bessler WG,Brade H

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a purified beta-propiolactone-inactivated rabies virus, a significant increase in footpad swelling was elicited in normal or in BCG-pretreated mice after immunization with varying doses of rabies vaccine. These footpad reactions were shown to peak at 24 h and to be associated with an infiltration of newly formed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lagrange PH,Tsiang H,Hurtrel B,Ravisse P

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were vaccinated with plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding antigen 85A (Ag85A), Ag85B, or PstS-3 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis either in saline or formulated for intramuscular injections in VC1052:DPyPE (aminopropyl-dimethyl-myristoleyloxy-propanaminium bromide-diphytanoylphosphatidyl-ethanolamine) (Vaxfectin; Vical, Inc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： D'Souza S,Rosseels V,Denis O,Tanghe A,De Smet N,Jurion F,Palfliet K,Castiglioni N,Vanonckelen A,Wheeler C,Huygen K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of Trichomonas vaginalis is believed to be dependent on four adhesion proteins, which are thought to bind to vaginal epithelial cells in a specific manner with a ligand-receptor type of interaction. However, the specific receptors on the host cell have not yet been identified. In this work, the ability of the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Addis MF,Rappelli P,Fiori PL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae normally inhabits aquatic habitats but can cause a severe diarrheal illness in humans. Its arsenal of virulence factors includes a secreted hemagglutinin (HA) protease. An HA protease-deficient mutant of V. cholerae was isolated and designated E7946 mpc. E7946 mpc was found to contain a point mutation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vance RE,Zhu J,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay method has been developed for the detection of rotavirus in the form of a purified antigen and in stool. The parameters of the radioimmunoassay were examined and optimized to give high sensitivity and same-day results. Compared with electron microscopy, the assay is up to 10 times as sen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Middleton PJ,Holdaway MD,Petric M,Szymanski MT,Tam JS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhanced memory response, as shown by increased titers of specific immunoglobulin A (IgA), was seen in intestinal secretions from isolated Thiry-Vella loops in rabbits primed orally with live, locally invasive Shigella sp. X16 and challenged 60 days later with a single oral dose of the same antigen. Heat-killed shi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keren DF,McDonald RA,Scott PJ,Rosner AM,Strubel E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose-resistant, Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbria, responsible for mannose-resistant hemagglutination, is a virulence factor for uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis. Based on known fimbrial gene organization, we postulated that MrpG, a putative minor subunit of the MR/P fimbria, functions as an adhesin responsible for he...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Zhao H,Geymonat L,Bahrani F,Johnson DE,Mobley HL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of route of administration, dosage, and number of boosts employed during immunization with the polymyxin-release form of Escherichia coli heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin on the degree and duration of protection afforded was evaluated in rats which were challenged by the ligated loop technique. Increasing the b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Klipstein FA,Engert RF

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oophorectomized, estrogen-treated rats were immunized by the intravaginal or intranasal route with a mannoprotein extract (MP) or secreted aspartyl proteinases (Sap) of Candida albicans, with or without cholera toxin as a mucosal adjuvant. Both routes of immunization were equally effective in (i) inducing anti-MP and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： De Bernardis F,Boccanera M,Adriani D,Girolamo A,Cassone A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a murine model to determine whether chronic corticosteroid therapy has uniform effects on bacterial clearance processes in different tissues. After a 2-week regimen of oral prednisolone, Swiss Webster mice were challenged with Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 or virulent derivatives of PAO1 (IP-8 and IT-10)....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nugent KM,Cox CD,Pesanti EL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity in mice to the infective third-stage larvae (L3) of Strongyloides stercoralis was shown to be dependent on immunoglobulin M (IgM), complement activation, and granulocytes. The objectives of the present study were to determine whether IgG was also a protective antibody isotype and to define the spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ligas JA,Kerepesi LA,Galioto AM,Lustigman S,Nolan TJ,Schad GA,Abraham D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycolipid haptens of Mycoplasma pneumoniae became immunogenic when bound to membrane proteins of Acholeplasma laidlawii by reaggregation. This process consisted of the solubilization of lipid-depleted A. laidlawii membranes and M. pneumoniae glycolipids in 20 mm sodium dodecyl sulfate and dialysis of the mixed so...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Razin S,Prescott B,James WD,Caldes G,Valdesuso J,Chanock RM

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results show that Listeria monocytogenes, Francisella tularensis, and Salmonella typhimurium are facultative intracellular bacteria with a capacity to invade and grow in nonphagocytic cells in vivo. In the liver, all of these pathogens were seen to invade and to multiply extensively in hepatocytes. In all three ca...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Conlan JW,North RJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified A-antigen preparation of Blastomyces dermatitidis was determined to be composed of five major glycoprotein bands, visible with Coomassie blue and periodic acid-Schiff staining of polyacrylamide gels. At least 20 additional protein bands were detected by using a silver stain, which was 100 times more sensiti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Young KD,Larsh HW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two virulence factors of Listeria monocytogenes, listeriolysin O (LLO) and phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), mediate escape of this pathogen from the phagocytic vacuole of macrophages, thereby allowing the bacterium access to the host cell cytosol for growth and spread to neighboring cells. We ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wei Z,Schnupf P,Poussin MA,Zenewicz LA,Shen H,Goldfine H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an in vitro culture method to characterize the expression of bacterial genes under conditions mimicking the colonic environment. Our culture system (the intestinal simulator) comprised a continuous-flow anaerobic culture which was inoculated with fecal samples from healthy volunteers. As a test organism, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ruiz-Perez F,Sheikh J,Davis S,Boedeker EC,Nataro JP

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from adult periodontitis patients were analyzed for antibody activity against surface antigens of Bacteroides gingivalis by immunoblotting analysis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Naito Y,Okuda K,Takazoe I

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP) has long been known to appear in the sera of individuals with inflammatory processes, but its role in host defense against bacterial infection is unclear. We have recently demonstrated that CRP in the presence of the classical complement pathway markedly enhances the opsonization of Streptococ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mold C,Edwards KM,Gewurz H

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of which component of lipopolysaccharide, the lipid or the polysaccharide, is mitogenic for mouse B-lymphocytes has been performed. A purified glycolipid derived from a rough mutant of Salmonella minnesota (R595) that does not contain any o-polysaccharide at all is more mitogenic than an intact lipopolysac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstreich DL,Nowotny A,Chused T,Mergenhagen SE

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania-infected macrophages are potential antigen-presenting cells for CD4+ T lymphocytes, which recognize parasite antigens bound to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (Ia). However, the intracellular sites where Ia and antigens may interact are far from clear, since parasites grow within the mod...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Antoine JC,Jouanne C,Lang T,Prina E,de Chastellier C,Frehel C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the Treponema denticola factor H-like protein 1 (FHL-1) binding protein, FhbB, was recovered and characterized. Sequence conservation, expression, and properties of FhbB were analyzed. The identification of FhbB represents an important step in understanding the contribution of FHL-1 binding in T. den...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDowell JV,Frederick J,Stamm L,Marconi RT

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00