B-B cell interactions in the spontaneous activation of B cells in autoimmune NZB mice.

abstract：:Direct stimulations of murine B lymphocytes with synthetic lipid A analogs and synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP) derivatives were studied using a limiting dilution assay system. Synthetic lipid A analogs, GLA-27 and GLA-40, when conjugated with bovine serum albumin (BSA) had the ability to induce B cell clonal expansi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito-Taki T,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompA gene, 981 bp in size and identified in the Mycobacterium bovis genome, was cloned and sequenced. Predicted amino acid sequences showed a protein of molecular weight 33.5 kDa with an isoelectric point of 7.28 and an OmpA conserved domain at the carboxy terminal with signal sequence at the N-terminal. Homology ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Singh JP,Verma R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) is a widely used probiotic strain with health benefits. In this study, the survival of LcS in the intestines of healthy Chinese adults was assessed and the effects of LcS on stool consistency, stool SCFAs and intestinal microbiota evaluated. Subjects consumed 100 mL per day of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wang R,Chen S,Jin J,Ren F,Li Y,Qiao Z,Wang Y,Zhao L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are extremely heterogeneous mononuclear phagocytes widely distributed throughout the body. They play unique roles in each organ where they reside. Among macrophage subsets, red pulp macrophages (RPMs) that localize in the splenic red pulp, are critical for maintenance of blood homeostasis by actively phago...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kurotaki D,Uede T,Tamura T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five groups of 32 chemicals were examined regarding their immunological functions as modifier inactivants to make inactivated Sendai nasal vaccine using a contact exposure experiment, direct immunofluorescent method, and serum HI titer. (1) Five of the nine reactive groups of reactive dyes (2-chloropyridine, 2, 4, 6-t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyamae T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis. The importance of urban leptospirosis is recognized in Japan: urban rats carry pathogenic leptospires and people acquire these pathogens through contact with surface water or soil contaminated by the urine of the infected animals. To determine the current Leptospira carriage rate...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito M,Villanueva SY,Masuzawa T,Haraguchi Y,Ita S,Miyahara S,Ozuru R,Yamaguchi T,Yoshimura M,Ikejiri M,Aramaki N,Amran MY,Muslich LT,Iida K,Yanagihara Y,Gloriani NG,Yoshida S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1985 to 1990, serum samples were obtained from 229 healthy dogs. The dogs lived in Hokkaido, known to be infested with ticks. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect IgG and IgM antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi HO14 and HP3, which were isolated from Ixodes ovatus and I. persulcatu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isogai E,Isogai H,Sato N,Yuzawa M,Kawakami M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four T antigen-positive phenotypic revertants were isolated by negative selection with BUdR from SV40-transformed rat and mouse cells which contain six and two viral genome equivalents per cell, respectively. Karyological analysis indicated that one rat and one mouse revertant had a hyperploid number of chromosomes, w...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maruyama K,Furuta T,Ueda K,Oda K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen temperature-sensitive mutants of Sendai virus were isolated from mutagenized stocks (10 mutants, designated numerically) and persistently infected cultures (6 mutants, designated alphabetically). Based on complementation tests, virion-associated activities, thermal inactivation, and viral RNA and hemadsorbing ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Adachi A,Kanda T,Shibuta H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the extent of genetic diversity of Salmonella choleraesuis subspecies choleraesuis serovar Infantis and whether environmental isolates were similar or identical to human isolates, a total of 110 isolates from humans, broiler samples, egg production facilities, riverwater, sewage, and chicken meat were ana...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami K,Horikawa K,Otsuki K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4KB) has emerged as a conserved target of anti-picornavirus compounds. In the present study, PI4KB was identified as the direct target of the plant-derived anti-picornavirus compounds, oxoglaucine and pachypodol (also known as Ro 09-0179). PI4KB was also ident...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Arita M,Philipov S,Galabov AS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological typing scheme of Bacillus cereus has been developed by immunochemical analyses of flagellar antigen using an agglutination method. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the classification of flagellar serotype of Bacillus cereus had greater sensitivity. 10-500 times, than that of agglutination me...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murakami T,Hiraoka K,Mikami T,Matsumoto T,Katagiri S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens KZ1340 isolated from Antarctic soil was first classified as Clostridium plagarum and later as a lecithinase-negative variant of C. perfringens. Although the strain produced no detectable lecithinase (phospholipase C, PLC) activity in the culture supernatant, it was shown by Southern blot hybrid...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kameyama K,Matsushita O,Katayama S,Minami J,Maeda M,Nakamura S,Okabe A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses in Indonesia, epidemiology information on seasonal human influenza is lacking. The present authors, therefore, conducted virologic surveillance in Surabaya, East Java from October 2008 to March 2010. Influenza viruses, including pandemic (H1N1) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamaoka M,Palilingan JF,Wibisono J,Yudhawati R,Nidom RV,Alamudi MY,Ginting TE,Makino A,Nidom CA,Shinya K,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leukocidin was isolated and purified from autolysates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain 158 by a combination of procedures such as column chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, and zone electrophoresis on pevikon. The purified preparation showed a single band in each experiment using ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirayama T,Kato I,Matsuda F,Noda M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenoviruses (HAdVs) are an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in children. However, few studies on the epidemiology or types of HAdVs associated with acute gastroenteritis have been conducted in Korea. Therefore, in the present study, the incidence of HAdV in 2064 stool samples from Korean children hospit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lee JI,Lee GC,Chung JY,Han TH,Lee YK,Kim MS,Lee CH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method for the separation and identification of Bacteroides fragilis from other Bacteroides species through the use of oxgall-impregnated filter paper disks is described. As in the antibiotic sensitivity test, filter paper disks containing defined amounts of bile salt were placed on a lawn of bacterial cells ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamazaki E,Sugimoto K,Niwano K,Okada J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens KZ1340, previously classified as Clostridium plagarum, is an isolate from Antarctic soil, and was identified as an alpha-, theta-, and kappa-toxin non-producing variant. On Southern hybridization, the variant was found to be defective in the pfoA (theta-toxin) gene, but the plc (alpha-toxin) an...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Ohtani K,Ba-Thein W,Inui S,Nakamura S,Hayashi H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RobA is a member of the XylS/AraC subfamily of DNA binding proteins, and when overexpressed, it induces multiple antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli. In this study, we introduced a multicopy robA plasmid (pMEP1) and its derivative into OmpF mutants and an AcrAB-deficient mutant. We found that a decrease in susce...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka T,Horii T,Shibayama K,Sato K,Ohsuka S,Arakawa Y,Yamaki K,Takagi K,Ohta M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection and its association with cardiac and hepatic damage. Between March 2013 and March 2014, 59 children with MP pneumonia (MPP) and 30 healthy children were enrolled. Serum titers of TLR4, T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-doma...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan Q,Meng J,Li P,Liu Z,Sun Y,Yan P

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is an efficacious chemoattractant for lymphocytes, monocytes and hematopoietic progenitor cells. In the present study, we examined whether SDF-1 has growth promoting activity on human peripheral T cells and analyzed the possible underlying signal transduction pathways. SDF-1 augme...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yonezawa A,Hori T,Sakaida H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric PCV1-2 clone containing the PCV2 capsid gene cloned into the backbone of the nonpathogenic PCV1 genome was recently generated based on PCV2 and PCV1 strains isolated in China. The efficacy of this available candidate inactivated vaccine was evaluated by subjecting conventional pigs to intramuscular immuniza...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Xujie L,Xiaobo W,Yi S,Jing F,Song G,Xiufan L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isolates from calves with diarrhea (1 day to 8 weeks old, 140 individuals) were surveyed for the three immunologically distinct fimbrial adhesins FY, 31A, and K99. Of a total of 1,370 strains isolated, 96 (7.0%), 34 (2.5%), 75 (5.5%), and 13 (0.9%) were identified as FY+, 31A+, FY+.31A+, and K99+, res...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu M,Sakano T,Yamamoto J,Kitajima K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous phage, fs1, was obtained from Vibrio cholerae O139. The lysogenized strains produced a large amount of fs1 phage in the culture supernatant. This phage was previously reported as novel fimbriae of that organism. The genome of the phage was a 6.5 kb single-stranded DNA. The capsid of fsl consists of a small...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakasone N,Honma Y,Toma C,Yamashiro T,Iwanaga M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the humoral immunity in herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection, HSV-specific IgM, IgA and IgG subclass antibody responses were studied in patients with genital herpes: 17 primary, 13 recurrent and 6 nonprimary first episode. A total of 181 serum samples serially collected from the patients, 5 per patient unti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hashido M,Kawana T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SCG is a major 6-branched 1,3-beta-D-glucan in Sparassis crispa Fr. SCG shows antitumor activity and also enhances the hematopoietic response in cyclophosphamide (CY)-treated mice. In the present study, the molecular mechanism of the enhancement of the hematopoietic response was investigated. The levels of interferon-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Harada T,Kawaminami H,Miura NN,Adachi Y,Nakajima M,Yadomae T,Ohno N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test for susceptibility to kanamycin is useful for differentiating between the genera Rhodococcus and Nocardia. All rhodococci except R. equi, R. erythropolis, and R. aurantiacus are susceptible to kanamycin, whereas all nocardiae except N. otitidis-caviarum are resistant to kanamycin. Tests for susceptibility to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsukamura M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl with meningococcal meningitis lacked serum complement activity. The seventh component of complement (C7) could not be detected in her serum by either functional or immunochemical analysis. The levels of the other components were within the normal range. Her serum complement activity was restored by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Ohta K,Kawamori J,Hirao T,Akagaki Y,Inai S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported a helper T-cell (Th) epitope (peptide i) which corresponded to the sequence ranging from positions 462 to 479 from the N-terminus of the Friend-murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) envelope protein (env462-479). Homologous sequences exist in both Moloney-murine leukemia (M-MuLV env452-469) and endogen...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uenishi H,Iwanami N,Yamagishi H,Nakatani T,Kawasaki T,Tamamura H,Fujii N,Kuribayashi K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effect of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. enterocolitica ST) on cyclic nucleotide levels in the intestines of 6-day-old mice and in cultured cell line cells. The concentration of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) in homogenates of the intestines increas...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Inoue T,Okamoto K,Moriyama T,Takahashi T,Shimizu K,Miyama A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00