Protective and pathological functions of CD8+ T cells in Leishmania braziliensis infection.

abstract：:In order to ascertain if Cryptococcus neoformans components can induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, we stimulated human whole blood with purified capsular products. Their potencies in stimulating IL-6 release were mannoproteins > galactoxylomannan = glucuronoxylomannan > alpha(1-3)glucan. IL-6 production was tumor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delfino D,Cianci L,Lupis E,Celeste A,Petrelli ML,Curró F,Cusumano V,Teti G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive transfer of antibody may be useful for preexposure prophylaxis against biological agents used as weapons of terror, such as Bacillus anthracis. Studies were performed to evaluate the ability of anthrax antiprotective antigen (anti-PA) and antilethal factor (anti-LF) neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Staats HF,Alam SM,Scearce RM,Kirwan SM,Zhang JX,Gwinn WM,Haynes BF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular damage in young adult mice produced by purified Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A was microscopically characterized at 1 and 5 h and at 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days after toxin A challenge, using light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopic techniques. Similarly to previously described infectio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hazlett LD,Berk RS,Iglewski BH

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated full-length cDNAs encoding two distinct types of CuZn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia pahangi. The derived amino acid sequences suggested that one class of cDNAs represented a cytoplasmic form of SOD and the second class represented an extracellular (EC) variant...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tang L,Ou X,Henkle-Dührsen K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic tobacco plants stably expressing recombinant FaeG, which is the major subunit and adhesin of K88ad fimbriae, were obtained. Analysis of sera from immunized mice indicates that in mice, the immunogenicity induced by plant-derived FaeG protein is comparable to that generated with traditional approaches. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Huang Y,Liang W,Pan A,Zhou Z,Huang C,Chen J,Zhang D

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell-mediated immunity is an important determinant in protection against primary infection with Coccidioides immitis, a dimorphic fungal pathogen that causes the disease coccidioidomycosis. To determine if interleukin-12 (IL-12) gene therapy could potentiate host response against C. immitis, we constructed a single-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jiang C,Magee DM,Cox RA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi undergoes differential gene expression during transmission from its tick vector to a vertebrate host. The addition of blood to a spirochete culture at 35 degrees C for 48 h had a dramatic effect on gene expression of this organism. Utilizing B. burgdorferi whole genome DNA arrays, we compared the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tokarz R,Anderton JM,Katona LI,Benach JL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses of mice to Streptococcus mutans serotype c were analyzed by means of the enzyme-linked immunospot assay to determine the predominant specificities of the antibodies developed. In general, the numbers of splenic antibody-secreting cells correlated with serum antibody levels. A low dose (10(8) CFU) of k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Russell MW,Czerkinsky C,Moldoveanu Z

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenated fatty acids, or oxylipins, play an essential role in physiological signaling and developmental processes in animals, plants, and fungi. Previous characterization of three Aspergillus fumigatus dioxygenases (PpoA, PpoB, and PpoC), similar in sequence to mammalian cyclooxygenases, showed that PpoA is responsi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dagenais TR,Chung D,Giles SS,Hull CM,Andes D,Keller NP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed the expression vector pSK-SCP containing the streptococcal exotoxin B gene (spe b) which expressed protease activity. We showed that the recombinant streptococcal pyogenic exotoxin B/streptococcal cysteine protease (rSPE B/SCP) was secreted into the culture supernatant of the transformant and retained i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe Y,Todome Y,Ohkuni H,Sakurada S,Ishikawa T,Yutsudo T,Fischetti VA,Zabriskie JB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement receptor type 3 (CR3) was initially described as an opsonic receptor. Subsequently, CR3-mediated lectin-sugar recognition mechanisms have been shown to play a major role in the nonopsonic phagocytosis of several pathogens, among them Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Little is known about the binding and signal t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Le Cabec V,Cols C,Maridonneau-Parini I

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD14, the leukocyte receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS), is important in the response of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) to infection with gram-negative bacteria. The level of CD14 on the PMN surface increases after exposure to some inflammatory stimuli such as N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rodeberg DA,Morris RE,Babcock GF

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted to humans from infected animals by tissue cysts and oocysts excreted by cats. Immunization with inactivated parasites or recombinant proteins has at best shown partial protection. We constructed a plasmid expressing the SAG1 surface antigen of T. g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nielsen HV,Lauemøller SL,Christiansen L,Buus S,Fomsgaard A,Petersen E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that hbhA is differentially regulated during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Upregulation was observed in epithelial cell infection but not in macrophage infection and in the lungs but not in the spleens of infected mice, and it was greater during the early steps of infection, when bacilli disseminate ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Delogu G,Sanguinetti M,Posteraro B,Rocca S,Zanetti S,Fadda G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During acute infection with bacteria, viruses or parasites, a fraction of macrophages engulf large numbers of red and white blood cells, a process called hemophagocytosis. Hemophagocytes persist into the chronic stage of infection and have an anti-inflammatory phenotype. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infecti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McDonald EM,Pilonieta MC,Nick HJ,Detweiler CS

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a cell wall-associated protein from Fusobacterium nucleatum, a Gram-negative bacterium of the oral cavity, that induces human beta defensin 2 (hBD-2) in primary human oral epithelial cells (HOECs) and designated it FAD-I (Fusobacterium-associated defensin inducer). Here, we report differential...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Ghosh SK,Shokeen B,Eapan B,Lux R,Kiselar J,Nithianantham S,Young A,Pandiyan P,McCormick TS,Weinberg A

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It was demonstrated that complement-coated sheep erythrocytes bind to Candida albicans cells grown in serum-free RPMI 1640 medium. Testing of purified complement components proved that iC3b and C3d were responsible for the reaction, whereas C3b and C3b-H reacted only slightly if at all. Binding occurred only to C. alb...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heidenreich F,Dierich MP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe a protocol for purifying Borrelia burgdorferi from feeding ticks by velocity centrifugation and Percoll density gradient centrifugation. The purified spirochetes were motile and 10- to 20-fold purer than the bacteria in crude tick homogenates. The purified bacteria were present in sufficient quantity ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rathinavelu S,de Silva AM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of coccidioidomycosis depends to a large extent on the effectiveness of the T-cell-mediated immune (CMI) response to the fungal pathogen. For this reason, identification of Coccidioides immitis antigens which stimulate T cells is important for understanding the nature of host defense against the organism a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kirkland TN,Thomas PW,Finley F,Cole GT

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly hatched chicks were vaccinated orally with a genetically defined Salmonella enteritidis aroA candidate, strain CVL30. In chickens immunized with 10(5) or 10(9) CFU and challenged by the intravenous route with 10(8) CFU of S. enteritidis 109 Nalr at 8 weeks old, there were similar reductions in colonization of th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cooper GL,Venables LM,Woodward MJ,Hormaeche CE

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens capable of conferring protective immunity against tuberculosis has received a boost owing to the resurgence of tuberculosis over the past two decades. It has long been recognized that lymphoid cells are required for protection against M. tuberculosis. While tr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kumar P,Amara RR,Challu VK,Chadda VK,Satchidanandam V

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human systemic antibody levels to oral members of the Bacteroides genus were assessed with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Antibody levels to B. gingivalis, two homology groups of B. intermedius, B. melaninogenicus, B. denticola, B. loescheii, B. corporis, B. oralis, B. buccae, and B. gracilis were determined in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ebersole JL,Taubman MA,Smith DJ,Frey DE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae identified three open reading frames (ORFs) on the chromosomes that contained internal, tandemly repeated amino acid sequences that were absent in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The predicted amino acid sequ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guyard C,Chester EM,Raffel SJ,Schrumpf ME,Policastro PF,Porcella SF,Leong JM,Schwan TG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytadhesin P1 gene with novel nucleotide sequence variation has been identified. Four clinical strains of M. pneumoniae were found to carry this type of P1 gene. This new P1 gene is similar to the known group II P1 genes but possesses novel sequence variation of approximately 300 bp in the RepM...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kenri T,Taniguchi R,Sasaki Y,Okazaki N,Narita M,Izumikawa K,Umetsu M,Sasaki T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-κB is a critical regulator of gene expression during severe infections. NF-κB comprises homo- and heterodimers of proteins from the Rel family. Among them, p50 and p65 have been clearly implicated in the pathophysiology of sepsis. In contrast, the role of cRel in sepsis is still controversial and has been poorly st...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Courtine E,Pène F,Cagnard N,Toubiana J,Fitting C,Brocheton J,Rousseau C,Gerondakis S,Chiche JD,Ouaaz F,Mira JP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intimate attachment to the host cell leading to the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions is an essential feature of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 pathogenesis. In a related pathogen, enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), this activity is dependent upon translocation of the intimin receptor,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： DeVinney R,Stein M,Reinscheid D,Abe A,Ruschkowski S,Finlay BB

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of lipoteichoic acid in mediating the adherence of different serotypes of group B streptococci to human adult and neonatal epithelial cells. Pretreatment of neonatal buccal and vaginal epithelial cells with lipoteichoic acid, but not with deacylated lipoteichoic acid, induced a marked inh...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Teti G,Tomasello F,Chiofalo MS,Orefici G,Mastroeni P

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between Capnocytophaga ochracea ATCC 33596 and Streptococcus sanguis H1, Actinomyces naeslundii PK984, or Actinomyces israelii PK16 are dependent on specific recognitions between heat-sensitive adhesins on C. ochracea and heat-stable structures (probably carbohydrate-containing receptors) on the surfa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Weiss EI,London J,Kolenbrander PE,Kagermeier AS,Andersen RN

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random minitransposon mutagenesis was used to identify genes involved in the survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica within eukaryotic cells. One of the mutants which exhibited a reduced ability to survive intracellularly harbored a minitransposon insertion in a locus (ris) which displays a high degree of homology to tw...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jungnitz H,West NP,Walker MJ,Chhatwal GS,Guzmán CA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been proposed for the prevention of disease due to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), but the immune response following human infection, including the choice of potential antigens, has not been well characterized. To study this, sera were obtained from five pediatric patients with acute diarrhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li Y,Frey E,Mackenzie AM,Finlay BB

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00