Effect of calcium ion on lipid peroxide formation in endotoxemic mice.

abstract：:Erythematous delayed reactions without induration, presumably assigned to Jones-Mote type, were characterized by the resistance to treatment with cyclophosphamide (CY) before elicitation or immunization in guinea pigs immunized with BGG in IFA or CFA. CY-treatment before elicitation converted delayed erythematous reac...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Himeno K,Nomoto K,Takeya K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, quantitative, short-time, and reproducible focus assay for Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus is described. After 2 or 3 days of incubation, the infected cells were treated with anti-JE virus serum and complement, and subsequently stained with trypan blue; then clear foci were produced. This method made it ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura-Kuroda J,Yasui K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was applied for the etiological diagnosis of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiosis in Japan. Nucleotide primers derived from the 17-kDa antigen gene of Rickettsia rickettsii primed a rickettsia-specific 246-base-pair product for all of the Katayama, Abe, Misaka and Kojima strains,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tange Y,Matsumoto M,Okada T,Hasegawa H,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:The expression of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type-common surface antigens (CSA) in a representative cell clone (155-4-03) of hamster cell line 155-4 transformed by HSV type 2 was enhanced by treatment with inhibitors of RNA synthesis [adriamycin (ADM) and daunomycin] but not with inhibitors of DNA synthesis (2-iododeo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kako D,Ohnishi Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis spp. are opportunistic fungal pathogens that are closely associated with severe pneumonia and pulmonary complications in patients with impaired immunity. In this study, the antigenic epitopes of the gene encoding the 55 kDa antigen fragment of Pneumocystis (p55), which may play an important role in Pneumo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan H,Guo JY,Ma SL,Zhang N,An CL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pTK159, a multiresistance 40-kilobase (kb) plasmid, was isolated from a clinical strain of Serratia marcescens. pTK159 was nonconjugative and carried determinants for resistance to amikacin, streptomycin/spectinomycin, sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin. A physical and functional map of pTK159 was constructed. By cloning...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanno R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phospholipase C (alpha-toxin) gene (plc) of Clostridium perfringens was cloned into pUC19 and the effects of the upstream regions on expression of the plc gene were examined in Escherichia coli JM109. When the 0.7-kb region just upstream of the putative -35 site of the gene was deleted, production of phospholipase...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Toyonaga T,Matsushita O,Katayama S,Minami J,Okabe A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of glucose dehydrogenase present in resting spores of Bacillus subtilis varied strikingly with the conditions for disrupting the spores by sonic treatment, namely, the time and strength of sonication, and the type and pH of the solution used for suspending the spores. When the resting spores were sonicate...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tochikubo K,Yasuda Y

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IFN-induced double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated protein kinase PKR is one of the key molecules in the antiviral effects of IFN. To clarify the effects of hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) on antiviral activity of IFN, in particular on PKR kinase activity, in mammalian cells, we established induci...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Noguchi T,Satoh S,Noshi T,Hatada E,Fukuda R,Kawai A,Ikeda S,Hijikata M,Shimotohno K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Dengue virus multiplication in cultures of a murine myelomonocytic cell line (WEHI-3) as well as mouse peritoneal macrophages was enhanced by treatment of the cells with lipophilic derivatives of muramyl peptides for 2 or 3 days before virus inoculation, but not for 2 hr before virus inoculation or during the adsorpti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotta H,Sanchez LF,Takada H,Homma M,Kotani S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is the most predominant and important pathogen in clinical microbiology. A DNA amplification assay using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was designed to identify S. aureus through a single-base-pair mismatch in the sequences of staphylococcal 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. It was able to...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saruta K,Hoshina S,Machida K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common EDTA-soluble antigens of Clostridium chauvoei and C. septicum were examined by indirect-immunofluorescence (IFA) and immunoblot analysis. The monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for the 35 kDa antigen of C. chauvoei strain ATCC 10092 were used. These mAbs reacted with all 11 strains, 6 of C. chauvoei and 5 of...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamaoka T,Terakado N,Nakamura S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmids R401 and Rtsl belong to the same incompatibility group, IncT. The nucleotide sequence of the basic replicon of R401 consisting of 1,857 base pairs was determined and compared with that of mini-Rtsl previously reported. The mini-R401 was found to be composed of two clusters of direct repeated sequences fla...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabuchi A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 5 (IL-5), a lymphokine produced by helper T cells, is involved in the regulation of growth and differentiation of B cells and other hematopoietic cells. To elucidate IL-5-mediated intracellular mechanisms, we have established IL-5-dependent and -independent murine early B cell lines, J6 and MJ88-1, respect...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Migita M,Yamaguchi N,Katoh S,Mita S,Matsumoto R,Sonoda E,Tsuchiya H,Matsuda I,Tominaga A,Takatsu K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis autolyzes in the culture media. To examine in more detail the molecular components of the autolysate, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis was performed. Many protein spots varied both in number and volume. One of these spots included Arg-gingipain (Rgp) as determined by N-terminal amino acid s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kamaguchi A,Nakano M,Shoji M,Nakamura R,Sagane Y,Okamoto M,Watanabe T,Ohyama T,Ohta M,Nakayama K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia have been isolated with increasing frequency from the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, usually following P. aeruginosa infections, but their adherence to human epithelial respiratory cells has never been investigated. In this study, various S. maltophilia strains were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： De Vidipó LA,De Marques EA,Puchelle E,Plotkowski MC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the infection source of a sporadic Legionella pneumonia case associated with a hot spring bath, we used five molecular methods, including repetitive element polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR), arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), ribotyping, restriction endonuclease analysis (REA), and macrorestriction endon...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyamoto H,Jitsurong S,Shiota R,Maruta K,Yoshida S,Yabuuchi E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few yeast mannans free from protein and phosphorus showed pyrogenic activity in rabbits although the extent of this activity was considerably lower than that of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). The pyrogenic activity was not abolished by treatment with sodium deoxycholate. This result showed that the mannans...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nagase T,Mikami T,Suzuki S,Suzuki M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One strain each of granular and downy varieties of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and two strains each of granular and floccose colonial types Trichophyton rubrum were used for preparation of antigens. The antigens were analyzed by double diffusion against homologous and heterologous antisera raised in rabbits. A total o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shukla NP,Agarwal GP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of host cell factors on infectivity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was studied by infecting a monoblastoid cell line (U937) or a T-cell line (MOLT-4) with a highly infective single clone of HIV-1 and comparing the infectivity of the produced viruses to different cell lines. Chronically infec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： el-Farrash MA,Masuda T,Kuroda MJ,Harada S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been considered a feasible alternative for antimicrobial therapy of multidrug-resistant pathogens. However, bacterial response mechanisms against PDT-generated photo-oxidative stress remain largely unknown. Herein, it is shown that the accessory gene regulator Agr is involved in Staphylo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Park HJ,Moon YH,Yoon HE,Park YM,Yoon JH,Bang IS

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 55 strains of Clostridium sordellii, 21 lethal toxin-positive and 34 lethal toxin-negative, were tested for cytotoxin production in brain heart infusion medium supplemented with 0.2% Na2HPO4 (m-BHI) and cooked-meat-glucose (CMG) medium using baby hamster kidney (BHK-21/WI-2) cells as indicator cells. The m-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura S,Tanabe N,Yamakawa K,Nishida S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of continuous free-flow electrophoresis for the purification of extracted lipopolysaccharides ( LPSs ) was investigated. Commercial (nucleic acid contaminated) LPS preparations, isolated by the hot phenol-water method of Westphal from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli 0111: B4, were analyzed. Continu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuwae T,Kurata M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attachment of Mycoplasma pulmonis m53 organisms to mouse and rat synovial cells was examined by using the organisms and the synovial cells treated in various ways. M. pulmonis treated with trypsin attached to the synovial cells, but the organisms treated with pronase, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, or heat did not....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Araake M,Yayoshi M,Yoshioka M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are important members of the intestinal microbiota and are considered to contribute to maintaining health. However, the level of bifidobacteria colonising the intestine of elderly subjects tends to be lower than in younger adults. Therefore, two Bifidobacterium longum strains, isolated from healthy elde...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mäkeläinen H,Tahvonen R,Salminen S,Ouwehand AC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a filamentous bacteriophage, VfO4K68, from the pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain belonging to 04:K68 serovar. The VfO4K68 DNA lacked a 1,893-bp fragment present in that of the distinctive region of f237, a filamentous phage isolated from a pandemic 03:K6 strain (Nasu, H. et al., J. Clin. Microbiol., ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chan B,Miyamoto H,Taniguchi H,Yoshida S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible presence of Paul-Bunnell (PB) antigen on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed lymphocytes were investigated. Of 23 EBV genome-positive lymphoblastoid cell lines tested all but one absorbed PB type antibody from the serum of an infectious mononucleosis patient. The one EBV-negative B cell line tested did n...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maeda M,Sairenji T,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation can cause refractory urinary tract infections (UTIs) in dogs; however, minimum biofilm eradication concentrations (MBECs) of veterinary drugs against canine uropathogens remain to be investigated. In this study, the MBECs of orbifloxacin (OBFX), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMS) and amoxicillin/cla...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Harada K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00