Anti-viral and anti-bacterial activities of an extract of blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum L.).

abstract：:The extract from ECMS was investigated for its effect on the humoral immune responses to foot-and-mouth disease vaccination. Fifty-six mice were randomly divided into seven groups with eight animals in each. Mice in groups 5 to 7 were subcutaneously (s.c.) injected with 0.5 mg DEX daily for 4 days to induce immunosupp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakwiwatkul K,Li RL,Song XM,Hu SH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of TSS diagnosis were evaluated: comparison of symptoms with clinical criteria and monitoring for evidence of selective activation of Vbeta2(+) T cells by the causative toxin, TSS toxin-1 (TSST-1). Ten patients with acute and systemic febrile infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus were monitored for in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuda Y,Kato H,Ono E,Kikuchi K,Muraoka M,Takagi K,Imanishi K,Itoh S,Itoh T,Ogawa T,Nitta K,Inokuchi S,Hibi T,Ohta H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy cattle and swine bred in a district of Japan were examined for the presence of Clostridium botulinum in their liver. Liver specimens were cultivated in chopped meat-glucose medium and the cultures were examined for botulinum toxin. In cattle, none of the cultures of 100 liver specimens yielded the toxin. In sw...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamakawa K,Kamiya S,Yoshimura K,Nakamura S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) open reading frame (ORF) VI product (P6) has been shown to be the major constituent of viral inclusion body, to function as a post-transcriptional transactivator, and to be essential for infectivity on whole plants. Although these findings suggest that P6 has an important role in viral ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kobayashi K,Tsuge S,Nakayashiki H,Mise K,Furusawa I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody recognizing (1-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl laminaritriose (G4) was prepared by immunizing BALB/c mice with G4-bovine serum albumin conjugate and fusing the splenocytes with mouse myeloma cells. The monoclonal antibody (IgM) provoked by the cloned cells showed low reactivity with schizophyll...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirata A,Komoda M,Itoh W,Tabata K,Sugawara I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrads-forming mutant MT cells of Micrococcus luteus, both treated with chemical reagents and non-treated, were observed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The agglutinability of the cells with antiserum containing anti-teichuronic acid antibody was examined. The binding of protein A-gold particles to the cel...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Monodane T,Tokunaga M,Torii M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical isolate of herpes simplex virus 1 (TN-1) from a stromal keratitis patient was found to be defective in the glycoprotein C (gC) gene (UL44), thus resulting in the production of truncated gC upon infection. To study the pathogenetic role of truncated gC, we prepared a recombinant LTN-8 derived from TN-1 with ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Minagawa H,Liu Y,Yoshida T,Hidaka Y,Toh Y,Mori R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals have co-evolved with retroviruses, including lentiviruses, over a long period. Evidence supporting this contention is that viral infectivity factor (Vif) encoded by lentiviruses antagonizes the anti-viral action of cellular apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3) of the host...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshikawa R,Izumi T,Nakano Y,Yamada E,Moriwaki M,Misawa N,Ren F,Kobayashi T,Koyanagi Y,Sato K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several liposomes containing ovalbumin (OVA), a model antigen, with different lipid compositions were prepared in order to evaluate their ability to induce oral tolerance. Oral administration of these liposomal OVAs induced suppression of the proliferative responses of popliteal lymph node cells from the treated mice ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Masuda K,Horie K,Suzuki R,Yoshikawa T,Hirano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of infection by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, one of the important pathogens in human periodontal diseases, has been reported to be associated with racial background and genetic factors. We attempted to determine the genetic regulation of immune responses to A. actinomycetemcomitans fimbriae, an ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Honma K,Ishii N,Kato T,Ishihara K,Okuda K,Okuda K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility of eight strains of influenza A and B viruses to interferon and to poly(I) . poly(C) were determined by the plaque reduction method. All strains tested were slightly less susceptible than vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in an established line of canine kidney (MDCK) cells. The 50% plaque depression dos...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Machida H,Kuninaka A,Yoshino H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of Moraxella (subgenus Branhamella) catarrhalis (B. catarrhalis) adherence to airway cells in lower respiratory tract infections, the in vitro attachments of B. catarrhalis to upper airway (oropharyngeal) and lower airway (bronchial) epithelial cells were compared. The adherence of 4 strains (1 nonfi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rikitomi N,Ahmed K,Nagatake T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was purified and subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in discontinuous buffer systems. Three bands were revealed by staining with Coomassie blue; two of them (E1 and E2) were associated with the membrane, and one (C) with the core. Their molecular weights wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Konishi E,Hotta S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the RC-HL strain of rabies virus is avirulent in adult mice, the amino acid at position 333 of its G protein is arginine, which is thought to be necessary for virulence in adult mice upon intracerebral inoculation of the virus. This result suggests that besides arginine at position 333, some other positions o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ito H,Minamoto N,Watanabe T,Goto H,Rong LT,Sugiyama M,Kinjo T,Mannen K,Mifune K,Konobe T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to investigate the resistance of the host due to antibody-mediated mechanisms to herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. Transfer of hyperimmune anti-HSV mouse serum inhibited the development of skin lesions and prolonged the survival of lethally HSV-infected nude mice. Relatively high concent...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hayashida I,Nagafuchi S,Hayashi Y,Kino Y,Mori R,Oda H,Ohtomo N,Tashiro A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron micrograph of HeLa S3 monolayered cells, inoculated with viable bacteria of a Salmonella typhi strain GIFU 10007, revealed that the extended microvilli tangled the bacteria within 10 min after inoculation. The micrographs of HeLa cells, at 1 hr after inoculation, indicate the following: shortening of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokoyama H,Ikedo M,Kohbata S,Ezaki T,Yabuuchi E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four N-acetylchito-oligosaccharides, from tetra-N-acetylchitotetraose (NACOS-4) to hepta-N-acetylchitoheptaose (NACOS-7), were found to increase the number of peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) in male BALB/c mice after 3 hr intraperitoneal administration of 50 mg/kg of each oligosaccharide. The number of attracted cells,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki K,Tokoro A,Okawa Y,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes express multiple TLRs that regulate their cytokine production.We investigated the effect of TLR4 and TLR9 activation on receptor activator of NF‐kB ligand (RANKL) expression by rat spleen B cells. Splenocytes or purified spleen B cells from Rowett rats were cultured with TLR4 ligand Escherichia coli LPS ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yu X,Lin J,Yu Q,Kawai T,Taubman MA,Han X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of superantigens is well-known and widely accepted. In this brief communication, we analyze the behaviour of antigen-presenting cells after T-cell activation by staphylococcal enterotoxin B, a representative superantigen. We tried to activate murine T cells by inflammatory mouse peritoneal macrophage in th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakurada J,Tajima A,Shinji H,Seki K,Masuda S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the BCG vaccine can prevent tuberculosis (TB) in infants, its ability to prevent adult pulmonary TB is reportedly limited. Therefore, development of a novel effective vaccine against pulmonary TB has become an international research priority. We have previously reported that intranasal vaccination of mice wit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukui M,Shinjo K,Umemura M,Shigeno S,Harakuni T,Arakawa T,Matsuzaki G

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:proteins which were able to bind noncovalently with mouse factor B were found in cells that are nonsecretors of factor B such as mouse-established monocytic cells and L cells but not in peritoneal resident macrophages. These proteins were isolated from lysates of L cells and separated into four distinct proteins by pr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Moriyama T,Kawamoto Y,Ichikawa H,Okamoto K,Inoue T,Kobayashi T,Miyama A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus mutants lacking three Na+/H+ antiporters (NhaA, NhaB, NhaD) were constructed. The DeltanhaA strains showed significantly higher sensitivity to LiCl regarding their growth compared to the parental strain. The DeltanhaA and DeltanhaB strains exhibited higher sensitivities to LiCl. The mutant XACa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuroda T,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of a water-soluble peptidoglycan fragment derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis (SEPS) were examined as to their role in proliferation of spleen mononuclear cells (SMNC) from various strains of mice, the production of cytokines in vitro, and the induction of an inflammatory reaction in vivo. The proli...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Onta T,Sashida M,Fujii N,Sugawara S,Rikiishi H,Kumagai K

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A gene for protein Arp4, an IgA receptor protein derived from Streptococcus pyogenes AP4, was expressed in Escherichia coli. The product was demonstrated to be accumulated in a periplasmic space as a polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 40 kDa with the deleted C-terminal membrane anchor portion of protein ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakatani T,Higuchi A,Noguchi H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human normal serum (HNS) on Pseudomonas pseudomallei was determined. It is apparent from our data that the organism is resistant to the normal serum bactericidal mechanism. Ancillary experiments to confirm this serum-resistant property of P. pseudomallei were done by examining the effects of growth phase...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ismail G,Razak N,Mohamed R,Embi N,Omar O

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense amino acids are amino acids which can be translated from the corresponding anti-codons of a sense amino acid. Antisense peptides encoded by the noncoding DNA strand have a tendency to interact with each other. We have demonstrated that antisense peptide sequences are present intramolecularly, and these may c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imai M,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Of the various virulence mechanisms of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the type III secretion system (TTSS) has been characterized as a major factor associated with acute lung injury, bacteremia and mortality. In addition, PcrV, a component protein of the TTSS, has been characterized as a protective...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasumoto H,Katoh H,Kinoshita M,Shimizu M,Hamaoka S,Akiyama K,Naito Y,Sawa T

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00