Giardia muris infection in mice is associated with a protective interleukin 17A response and induction of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha.

abstract：:Tuberculous pleurisy allows the study of human cells at the site of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. In this study, we found that among pleural fluid (PF) lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells are a major source of early gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) upon M. tuberculosis stimulation, leading us to investig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schierloh P,Yokobori N,Alemán M,Landoni V,Geffner L,Musella RM,Castagnino J,Baldini M,Abbate E,de la Barrera SS,Sasiain MC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental Leishmania donovani infection in BALB/c mice, initial susceptibility gives way to T-cell-dependent acquired resistance and eventual control over visceral infection. Since various cytokines appear to underlie the host response to Leishmania infection, we examined infected liver tissue for gene expressio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Miralles GD,Stoeckle MY,McDermott DF,Finkelman FD,Murray HW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporothrix schenckii is a human pathogen that causes sporotrichosis, an important cutaneous mycosis with a worldwide distribution. It produces dark-brown conidia, which infect the host. We found that S. schenckii synthesizes melanin via the 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene pentaketide pathway. Melanin biosynthesis in the wild...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Romero-Martinez R,Wheeler M,Guerrero-Plata A,Rico G,Torres-Guerrero H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major oral pathogen responsible for dental caries formation, possesses a variety of mechanisms for survival in the human oral cavity, where the conditions of the external environment are diverse and in a constant state of flux. The formation of biofilms, survival under conditions of acidic pH, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chong P,Drake L,Biswas I

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetrasaccharide 3-deoxy-alpha-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (alpha-KDO) (2----8)-alpha-KDO(2----4)-alpha-KDO(2----6)-beta GlcNAc, a partial structure of chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) representing a genus-specific epitope, was synthesized and covalently linked to bovine serum albumin, resulting in an artificial ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fu Y,Baumann M,Kosma P,Brade L,Brade H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports from our laboratory have shown that 7 days after infection of C3HeB/FeJ mice with an attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimurium, there is profound suppression of responses to B- and T-cell mitogens and suppression of the capacity of spleen cells to mount a primary, in vitro plaque-forming-cell (PFC) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang D,Schwacha MG,Eisenstein TK

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum antibody response to proteins encoded by the virulence-associated plasmid of Shigella flexneri was determined in monkeys challenged with virulent S. flexneri serotype 2a. With water-extractable antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, a significant increase in antibody titer against proteins from a p...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Oaks EV,Hale TL,Formal SB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the identification and characterization of two zinc uptake systems, ZurAM and ZinABC, in the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Transcription of both operons was zinc responsive and regulated by the zinc-sensing repressor Zur. Deletion of either zurAM or zinA had no detectable effect on grow...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Corbett D,Wang J,Schuler S,Lopez-Castejon G,Glenn S,Brough D,Andrew PW,Cavet JS,Roberts IS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of innate immune responses to pathogens occurs through the interaction of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) with pathogen-associated molecular patterns and the activation of several signaling pathways whose contribution to the overall innate immune response to pathogens is poorly understood. We demonstrate a m...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Izadi H,Motameni AT,Bates TC,Olivera ER,Villar-Suarez V,Joshi I,Garg R,Osborne BA,Davis RJ,Rincón M,Anguita J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis and killing by alveolar macrophages from humans, rabbits, rats, and hamsters, were compared in vitro. In the absence of serum opsonins, human alveolar macrophages could phagocytize Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (protein A positive), but not S. aureus EMS (protein A negative) or Pseudomonas aeruginosa MN. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nguyen BY,Peterson PK,Verbrugh HA,Quie PG,Hoidal JR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharide to mice induced DNA fragmentation in the thymus. Fragmented DNA was confirmed by agarose gel electrophoresis and laser flow cytometry. DNA fragmentation was predominantly detected in the thymus of young mice, while it was undetectable in the spleen, bone marrow, a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhang YH,Takahashi K,Jiang GZ,Kawai M,Fukada M,Yokochi T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a major pathogen of dental caries, is considered one of the causative agents of infective endocarditis (IE). Recently, bacterial DNA encoding 120-kDa cell surface collagen-binding proteins (CBPs) has frequently been detected from S. mutans-positive IE patients. In addition, some of the CBP-positi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Otsugu M,Nomura R,Matayoshi S,Teramoto N,Nakano K

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiphagocytic effect of the Staphylococcus aureus capsule is known to be related to its ability to interfere with opsonization by normal human serum. In this study, evidence is presented with isolated cell surface components which indicates that the capsule hinders opsonization by masking cell wall peptidoglycan....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wilkinson BJ,Peterson PK,Quie PG

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a bacterium-induced chronic inflammation that destroys tissues that attach teeth to jaw bone. Pathologically excessive matrix metalloproteinase 8 (MMP-8) is among the key players in periodontal destruction by initiating type I collagen degradation. We studied MMP-8 in Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuula H,Salo T,Pirilä E,Tuomainen AM,Jauhiainen M,Uitto VJ,Tjäderhane L,Pussinen PJ,Sorsa T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an in vitro assay to study the intramacrophage replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis BCG. In this assay, extracellular mycobacterial replication was avoided by using a small infecting inoculum and a new method for efficiently removing nonphagocytocytized bacilli. The abilit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zlotnik A,Crowle AJ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced anti-idiotype antibodies to antibody to lipid A from Eikenella corrodens. The ALA-1 monoclonal antibody (immunoglobulin M [IgM] isotype), which had already been produced in our laboratory (T. Kato, I. Takazoe, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 57:656-659, 1989), had reacted strongly with lipid A from E. corrode...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kato T,Takazoe I,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial heat shock proteins (HSP) are dominant antigens for the host immune response. Because of the high sequence homology between mammalian and microbial HSP, their value as component of a subunit vaccine has been the subject of controversy. Previous work from this laboratory, however, demonstrated for the first t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Noll A,AutenriethIB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing Streptococcus gordonii Spp+ phase variants, which have normal levels of glucosyltransferase (GTF) activity, use sucrose to promote their accumulation on surfaces by forming a cohesive bacterium-insoluble glucan polymer mass (BPM). Spp- phase variants, which have lower levels of GTF activity, do not form BPMs a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Vickerman MM,Jones GW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of antigenically conserved surface components of Haemophilus ducreyi may facilitate the development of reagents to diagnose and prevent chancroid. A hybridoma derived from a mouse immunized with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae produced a monoclonal antibody (MAb), designated 3B9, that bound to 35 of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spinola SM,Griffiths GE,Bogdan J,Menegus MA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collectins play important roles in host defense against infectious microorganisms. We now demonstrate that the serum collectins mannose-binding lectin (MBL) and conglutinin have less ability to bind to, aggregate, and enhance neutrophil uptake of several strains of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria than pulmona...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hartshorn KL,White MR,Crouch EC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of Treponema denticola GM-1, TD-4, and MS25 to human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) was studied to serve as an introduction to investigations into the interactions of these oral bacteria with human host cells. Under both aerobic (5% CO2) and anaerobic (85% N2 plus 10% H2 plus 5% CO2) environments, the inter...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weinberg A,Holt SC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen of macrophages, relying on the presence of a conjugative virulence plasmid harboring a 21-kb pathogenicity island (PAI) for growth in host macrophages. The PAI encodes a family of 6 virulence-associated proteins (Vaps) in addition to 20 other proteins. The contr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Coulson GB,Miranda-CasoLuengo AA,Miranda-CasoLuengo R,Wang X,Oliver J,Willingham-Lane JM,Meijer WG,Hondalus MK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrophage has previously been implicated in contributing to the renal inflammation associated with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). However, there is currently no in vivo model detailing the contribution of the renal macrophage to the kidney disease associated with HUS. Therefore, renal macrophage recruitment and...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Keepers TR,Gross LK,Obrig TG

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Yersinia species utilize a type III secretion system (T3SS) to translocate effectors called Yersinia outer proteins (Yops) into infected host cells. Previous studies demonstrated a role for effector Yops in the inhibition of caspase-1-mediated cell death and secretion of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) in naïv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lilo S,Zheng Y,Bliska JB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera against isolated cell surface preparations (PCSP-As) of Leishmania donovani promastigotes were used to detect extracellular antigens produced during the growth of these organisms in four different growth media. The PCSP-As precipitated two major antigenically identical but electrophoretically distinct compone...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaneshiro ES,Gottlieb M,Dwyer DM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae type b infection of immersed and air interface organ cultures for 24 h caused significant epithelial damage. Bacterial association with mucus, damaged epithelium, and unciliated cells was significantly higher in air interface than immersed organ cultures, and total bacterial association was 55.8...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jackson AD,Cole PJ,Wilson R

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised in rabbits with acid-treated Re mutant bacteria from Salmonella minnesota and Escherichia coli and tested in a passive hemolysis assay with di- and monophosphorylated free lipid A of E. coli (LipA-Ac and LipA-HCl, respectively) coated onto sheep erythrocytes. Depending on the acid used to prepare ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brade L,Brade H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoprecipitation method has been devised which permits the direct identification of those proteins which are both exposed on the cell surface of Haemophilus influenzae type b and accessible to antibody. Both extrinsically and intrinsically radiolabeled cells of this organism were employed as the sources of a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hansen EJ,Frisch CF,Johnston KH

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis were prepared by immunizing mice with a cloned isolate of T. vaginalis. Eight antibodies reacted with the same four isolates or strains but did not react with the other T. vaginalis strains or isolates tested. All eight antibodies reacted uniformly with both the body and ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Torian BE,Connelly RJ,Stephens RS,Stibbs HH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi encodes a functional homolog of canonical Lon protease termed Lon-2. In addition, B. burgdorferi encodes a second Lon homolog called Lon-1. Recent studies suggest that Lon-1 may function differently from the prototypical Lon protease. However, the function of Lon-1 in B. burgdorferi biology remain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thompson C,Mason C,Parrilla S,Ouyang Z

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00