Prolonged NF-κB activation by a macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1-linked signal in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-infected epithelial cells.

abstract：:Exfoliatin caused skin loss in hairless mutant mice only while they lacked hair, but older mice were more resistant to this effect than neonates. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kapral FA,Miller MM

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL16 is a recently discovered multifaceted chemokine that has been shown not only to recruit activated T lymphocytes but also to play a direct role in the binding and phagocytosis of bacteria by professional antigen-presenting cells. In this study, we investigated the role of CXCL16 in vivo in the regulation of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fahy OL,Townley SL,McColl SR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both dextransucrase and mutansynthetase activities have been purified from the culture fluids of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 (serotype c). Although homogeneous dextransucrase preparations normally synthesize little insoluble glucan, essentially all of the glucan synthesized by this enzyme in the presence of 1.5 M (NH4)2...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuramitsu HK,Wondrack L

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several immunological, hematological, and pathological responses associated with Marek's disease were determined. Four-week-old Marek's disease-infected and control chickens were injected with Salmonella pullorum antigen. About one-half of all infected chickens tested were unresponsive to antigenic challenge. Antibody...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Evans DL,Patterson LT

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against tuberculosis is considered to be essentially cell mediated, and an important role for CD8(+) T lymphocytes has been suggested by several studies of murine and human infections. The present work, using an experimental model of infection with Mycobacterium bovis in cattle, showed that live M....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liébana E,Girvin RM,Welsh M,Neill SD,Pollock JM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus, 78-238, isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of a dog with neurological dysfunction, was characterized as a paramyxovirus. This conclusion was supported by viral cytopathic effects and morphological appearance of virions and nucleocapsids in infected cells. Nucleocapsids were found in the cytoplasm of all in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baumgärtner WK,Metzler AE,Krakowka S,Koestner A

更新日期：1981-03-01 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：:Serologic parameters of kala-azar were evaluated by Western blot analysis. Sera from kala-azar patients with confirmed diagnoses were screened for immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgG subclass-specific reactivity against Leishmania donovani membrane antigen (LAg). Heterogeneous LAg-specific IgG reactivity with numerous prot...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ravindran R,Anam K,Bairagi BC,Saha B,Pramanik N,Guha SK,Goswami RP,Banerjee D,Ali N

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal cell polarity protects epithelial cells against Pseudomonas aeruginosa invasion and cytotoxicity. Using epithelial cell clones with selective defects in sorting of membrane constituents, and using hepatocyte growth factor pretreatment, we found that polarized susceptibility to P. aeruginosa can be altered witho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fleiszig SM,Vallas V,Jun CH,Mok L,Balkovetz DF,Roth MG,Mostov KE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absolute requirement for elemental iron and the porphyrin nucleus for growth of Haemophilus influenzae led us to investigate the role of iron and hemin in regulation of expression of the H. influenzae transferrin receptor. H. influenzae type b strain H1689 was grown in brain heart infusion broth supplemented with ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Morton DJ,Musser JM,Stull TL

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antibodies are those immunoglobulin molecules found in mammalian serum that arise in the absence of exposure to environmental pathogens and may comprise an early host defense against invading pathogens. The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi first encounters natural antibodies when its arthropod vector, Ixodes sc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Belperron AA,Bockenstedt LK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is surrounded by a capsular polysaccharide. There are at least four known serotypes of the polysaccharide. The objective of this study was to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that could be used to study the distribution of epitopes among the serotypes of C. neoformans. BALB/c mice were immu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eckert TF,Kozel TR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), a tryptophan-degrading enzyme, is inducible by various interferons (IFNs). IDO-mediated tryptophan degradation, but not the formation of IDO-catalyzed tryptophan metabolites, has been suggested as a mechanism for the antiparasitic action of IFN-gamma. To determine whether the IFN-gam...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Habara-Ohkubo A,Shirahata T,Takikawa O,Yoshida R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial immunodiffusion procedures have been developed for testing bovine sera for the presence of antibody activity against three foot-and-mouth disease virus types and a virus infection-associated antigen. Reactions with virus antigens were obtained as early as 4 days after infection, and the virus type causing the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wagner GG,Cowan KM,McVicar JW

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycans of organisms belonging to the strictly anaerobic family Bacteroidaceae were investigated for the presence of lanthionine. Different procedures for the quantitation of lanthionine were compared. Performic acid and peroxide oxidation procedures on 35S-labeled peptidoglycan from Fusobacterium nucleatum Fev...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vasstrand EN,Jensen HB,Miron T,Hofstad T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that a multivalent malaria vaccine is necessary to mimic the naturally acquired resistance to this disease observed in humans. A major experimental challenge is to identify the optimal components to be used in such a multivalent vaccine. Expression library immunization (ELI) is a method for screen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rainczuk A,Scorza T,Smooker PM,Spithill TW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the d15 gene from two strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and two strains of nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHI). The nucleotide and deduced protein sequences of d15 are highly conserved, with only a small variable region identified near the carboxyl terminus of the protein. Analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loosmore SM,Yang YP,Coleman DC,Shortreed JM,England DM,Klein MH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo- and in vitro-grown Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae organisms were inoculated onto newborn piglet tracheal organ cultures to provide a model for interaction of this organism with ciliated respiratory epithelium. Ciliostasis and loss of cilia in tracheal rings were induced by M. hyopneumoniae grown in vivo and with lo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeBey MC,Ross RF

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infiltration of neutrophils which phagocytose and kill microorganisms is an important defense mechanism against infections of the airways. Bordetella pertussis is a human respiratory pathogen which colonizes ciliated epithelium, causing whooping cough. We have investigated the effects of the peptidoglycan fragment...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cundell DR,Kanthakumar K,Taylor GW,Goldman WE,Flak T,Cole PJ,Wilson R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene bank of group A Streptococcus strain Manfredo (M protein serotype 5) was constructed with a bacteriophage lambda vector-Escherichia coli K-12 host system and screened by immunoblotting hybrid phage plaques with antisera raised to purified pep M5 (serotype 5 M protein fragment released from the streptococcal cel...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kehoe MA,Poirier TP,Beachey EH,Timmis KN

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is cleared from the blood mainly by the liver. The Kupffer cells are primarily responsible for this clearance; liver endothelial and parenchymal cells contribute to a lesser extent. Although several binding sites have been described, only CD14 is known to be involved in LPS signalling. Among t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Oosten M,van de Bilt E,van Berkel TJ,Kuiper J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we demonstrate that the variable antigens present on the surface of Plasmodium knowlesi-infected erythrocytes could not be found on the surface of merozoites. A number of technical problems had to be solved to make such a comparative study possible, including the purification of merozoites by affinity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hommel M,David PH

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most toxic proteins for humans. The current clostridial-derived vaccines against BoNT intoxication have limitations including production and accessibility. Conditions were established to express the soluble receptor binding domain (heavy-chain receptor [HCR]) of BoNT s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baldwin MR,Tepp WH,Pier CL,Bradshaw M,Ho M,Wilson BA,Fritz RB,Johnson EA,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of hamster tracheal rings in organ culture to virulent Mycoplasma pneumoniae organisms leads to alterations in macromolecular biosynthesis and metabolic activity of the respiratory epithelial cells. Avirulent organisms derived from the same parent strain do not produce these effects. During the course of infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hu PC,Collier AM,Baseman JB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant cultures that lacked the ability to produce filamentous hemagglutinin were obtained by UV irradiation of Bordetella pertussis strain 18-323. Various biological activities of these mutants were compared with those of the parent culture. It was found that the leukocytosis-promoting, histamine-sensitizing, and mou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe M,Nakase Y

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlichia chaffeensis is a recently isolated minute gram-negative obligatory intracellular bacterium of monocytes/macrophages and is the etiologic agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. It is not known how macrophages respond when they encounter ehrlichiae in terms of cytokine production. In this study, we examined cy...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lee EH,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the powerful separation technique of capillary gas chromatography combined with the selectivity of mass spectrometric detection, muramic acid was not detectable in purified elementary bodies of Chlamydia psittaci Cal 10 (less than or equal to 0.006%) or C. trachomatis serovar E (less than or equal to 0.02%). ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fox A,Rogers JC,Gilbart J,Morgan S,Davis CH,Knight S,Wyrick PB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is responsible for the majority of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) and represents the most common bacterial infection in adults. UPEC utilizes a wide range of virulence factors to colonize the host, including the novel repeat-in-toxin (RTX) protein TosA, which is spec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vigil PD,Wiles TJ,Engstrom MD,Prasov L,Mulvey MA,Mobley HL

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates born to female guinea pigs of either a highly susceptible (C4D) or a resistant (Albany) strain, infected prior to or during pregnancy with a single dose of Treponema pallidum, showed in their sera from the first day of life immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to T. pallidum, circulating immune complexes consist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wicher K,Baughn RE,Wicher V,Nakeeb S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial factors were analyzed in samples of whole saliva from 31 children, aged 0.8 to 3.8 years. When compared with the adult reference group, the children displayed similar levels of lysozyme, salivary peroxidase, and hypothiocyanite (OSCN-), whereas the amounts of immunoglobulins (isotypes A, G, and M), lacto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tenovuo J,Lehtonen OP,Aaltonen AS,Vilja P,Tuohimaa P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00