Interleukin-6-driven inflammatory response induces retinal pathology in a model of ocular toxoplasmosis reactivation.

abstract：:To ascertain the effects of selective impairment of the fixed macrophage compartment on host defense, rabbit anti-rat Kupffer cell serum was raised and tested for its ability to depress phagocytosis and to serve as an immunosuppressant. The ability of the anti-Kupffer cell serum (AKS) to depress intravascular clearanc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pisano JC,di Luzio NR

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-negative gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is equipped with an extraordinarily large set of outer membrane proteins (OMPs), whose role in the infection process is not well understood. The Hop (Helicobacter outer membrane porins) and Hor (Hop-related proteins) groups constitute a large paralogous family con...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Odenbreit S,Swoboda K,Barwig I,Ruhl S,Borén T,Koletzko S,Haas R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live attenuated bacteria hold great promise as multivalent mucosal vaccines against a variety of pathogens. A major challenge of this approach has been the successful delivery of sufficient amounts of vaccine antigens to adequately prime the immune system without overattenuating the live vaccine. Here we used a live a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Galen JE,Wang JY,Carrasco JA,Lloyd SA,Mellado-Sanchez G,Diaz-McNair J,Franco O,Buskirk AD,Nataro JP,Pasetti MF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of human monocytes, macrophages, and polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) on the fungal pathogen Blastomyces dermatitidis in vitro. Peripheral blood monocyte monolayers significantly inhibited the replication of a virulent strain (V) and an avirulent strain (AV) of...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brummer E,Stevens DA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface antigen makeup of metacyclic trypomastigote forms of strain G of Trypanosoma cruzi, which produce a subpatent infection in mice, differed from those of the virulent strains Y and CL. A 100,000-molecular-weight protein, barely detectable on the Y or CL cell surface, appeared as the main surface antigen of t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yoshida N

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) belongs to the Shiga family of bipartite AB toxins that inactivate eukaryotic 60S ribosomes. The A subunit of Stxs are N-glycosidases that share structural and functional features in their catalytic center and in an internal hydrophobic region that shows strong transmembrane propensity. Both ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Suhan ML,Hovde CJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface proteins in gram-positive bacteria are frequently required for virulence, and many are attached to the cell wall by sortase enzymes. Bacteria frequently encode more than one sortase enzyme and an even larger number of potential sortase substrates that possess an LPXTG-type cell wall sorting signal. In order to...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Comfort D,Clubb RT

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local passive immunization with monoclonal antibodies (Mc Ab) to Streptococcus mutans was attempted as an alternative approach to active systemic immunization. We prepared an immunoglobulin G class Mc Ab to the cell surface protein determinant of streptococcal antigen I/II and applied it repeatedly to the teeth of rhe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lehner T,Caldwell J,Smith R

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytotoxigenic Clostridium difficile strain that fails to produce toxin A but causes hemorrhage and bloody fluid accumulation in ligated ileal loops of rabbits and hemorrhage and diarrhea in hamsters is described. The lack of reaction of DNA from this strain in hybridization studies with a toxin A gene-specific 4.5-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Borriello SP,Wren BW,Hyde S,Seddon SV,Sibbons P,Krishna MM,Tabaqchali S,Manek S,Price AB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study demonstrated that polyclonal antibodies to Rickettsia conorii and monoclonal antibodies to outer membrane proteins A (OmpA) and B (OmpB) provided effective, Fc-dependent, passive immunity, even in severe combined immunodeficient mice with an established infection. In order to determine the mechanism of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Feng HM,Whitworth T,Popov V,Walker DH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that immune-mediated gastric epithelial cell apoptosis through Fas-Fas ligand interactions participates in Helicobacter pylori disease pathogenesis. To define the role of Fas signaling in vivo, H. pylori strain SS1 infection in C57BL/6 mice was compared to that in mice deficient in the Fas lig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jones NL,Day AS,Jennings H,Shannon PT,Galindo-Mata E,Sherman PM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection causes severe gastroduodenal diseases in humans. Its virulence is strongly increased by the presence of the cag pathogenicity island (cag PAI). It has been shown that CagA, a major antigen in humans, is translocated to the host cell via a secretion system encoded by the cag PAI. The roles...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seydel A,Tasca E,Berti D,Rappuoli R,Del Giudice G,Montecucco C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaccharides (OSs) related to the pneumococcal type 14 capsular polysaccharide (Pn14PS) were studied for their ability to inhibit the binding between anti-PS14 antisera and native PS14. A synthetic tetrasaccharide corresponding to the repeating unit of the Pn14PS, a hexasaccharide mimic, and an octasaccharide frag...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mawas F,Niggemann J,Jones C,Corbel MJ,Kamerling JP,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of CD4+ cells and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the resolution of established Cryptosporidium parvum infection was investigated with a murine model of cryptosporidiosis in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. C. parvum-infected SCID mice were reconstituted with spleen cells from immunocompeten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen W,Harp JA,Harmsen AG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several viruses were categorized on the basis of their ability to spread from cell to contiguous cell and form plaques in the presence of antiviral antibody. Herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, and vaccinia, measles, and foamy viruses were able to spread in the presence of neutralizing antibody, whereas coxsackievi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hooks JJ,Burns W,Hayashi K,Geis S,Notkins AL

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stools from a patient with antibiotic-associated colitis and cecal contents from a hamster with clindamycin-induced enterocolitis were compared in a cytotoxicity assay to determine common properties. Both specimens produced actinomorphic changes in human amnion cells at 10(-7) dilutions. The toxin was acid labile, hea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chang TW,Bartlett JG,Gorbach SL,Onderdonk AB

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells bearing the gammadelta antigen receptor (gammadelta T cells) can constitute up to 50% of T cells in the peripheral blood and lymphoid organs of young cattle. We present data showing that gammadelta T cells are involved in immune responses against Theileria parva. gammadelta T cells isolated from peripheral blo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Daubenberger CA,Taracha EL,Gaidulis L,Davis WC,McKeever DJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse peritoneal macrophages were successfully infected with two strains of Junin virus producing high titers with no apparent cell damage. Infected cultures survived longer than noninfected cultures. The pattern of virus release suggested a persistent infection. Virus replication was delayed in macrophages from mice ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： González PH,Lampuri JS,Coto CE,Laguens RP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans produces several enzymes which metabolize sucrose. Three glucosyltransferase genes (gtfB, gtfC, and gtfD) and a single fructosyltransferase gene (ftf) encode enzymes which are important in formation of exopolysaccharides. Mutants of S. mutans V403 carrying single and multiple mutations of the gtfB...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Munro C,Michalek SM,Macrina FL

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three open reading frames (ORFs) were identified by a genome walking strategy in the genomes of serotype M49 group A streptococcal (GAS) strains CS101 and 591. These ORFs were located between the mga core regulon and the dipeptide permease operon. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequences contained signature sequences ind...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Elsner A,Kreikemeyer B,Braun-Kiewnick A,Spellerberg B,Buttaro BA,Podbielski A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Vibrio cholerae, the transmembrane DNA binding proteins, ToxR and TcpP, activate expression of the regulatory gene toxT in response to specific environmental signals. The resulting enhanced level of ToxT leads to a coordinated increase in the production of a subset of virulence factors, including cholera toxin (CT)...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Krishnan HH,Ghosh A,Paul K,Chowdhury R

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is a recently identified coccidian parasite which shares many features with, but is clearly distinct from, Toxoplasma gondii. N. caninum tachyzoites infect a wide range of mammalian cells both in vivo and in vitro. The mechanisms by which infection is achieved are largely unknown. Recent evidence has ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hemphill A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces boulardii is a nonpathogenic yeast that protects against antibiotic-associated diarrhea and recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis. The administration of C. difficile toxoid A by gavage to S. boulardii-fed BALB/c mice caused a 1.8-fold increase in total small intestinal immunoglobulin A levels (P = 0.00...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Qamar A,Aboudola S,Warny M,Michetti P,Pothoulakis C,LaMont JT,Kelly CP

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen 2 (Ag2), a major immunoreactive component of Coccidioides immitis mycelium- and spherule-phase cell walls, was recently cloned in our laboratory and was shown to elicit T-cell responses in Coccidioides-immune mice. In this investigation, we evaluated recombinant Ag2 (rAg2) and PCR-generated Ag2 truncations for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhu Y,Tryon V,Magee DM,Cox RA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to infection with Eimeria vermiformis was transferred in NIH mice by both the nylon wool-adherent (B-cell-enriched) and nonadherent (T-cell-enriched) fractions of lymphocytes (spleen and mesenteric lymph node) taken from infected donors. Transfer was more variable with the adherent fraction, and when contamin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rose ME,Joysey HS,Hesketh P,Grencis RK,Wakelin D

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC chemokine receptor 4 (CCR4) and its two ligands, CCL17 and CCL22, are critically involved in different immune processes. In models of lipopolysaccharide-induced shock, CCR4-deficient (CCR4(-/-)) mice showed improved survival rates associated with attenuated proinflammatory cytokine release. Using CCR4(-/-) mice wit...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Traeger T,Kessler W,Assfalg V,Cziupka K,Koerner P,Dassow C,Breitbach K,Mikulcak M,Steinmetz I,Pfeffer K,Heidecke CD,Maier S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infection of mice with a virulent strain of Mycobacterium avium leads to a slowly progressive disease, which we have previously shown culminates in loss of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) production by T lymphocytes and death of the animals approximately 40 weeks after infection. Here we investigated the cha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mannering SI,Cheers C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelias that cause Lyme disease lose the ability to infect and cause disease in laboratory animals following 10 to 16 passages of in vitro culture. In this study, clonal populations of the Sh-2-82 (Sh2) and B31 strains of Borrelia burgdorferi were isolated by subsurface plating on BSK-II agar plates and examined for...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Norris SJ,Howell JK,Garza SA,Ferdows MS,Barbour AG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes pseudomembranous colitis through the action of Rho-modifying proteins, toxins A and B. Antibodies directed against C. difficile toxin A prevent or limit C. difficile-induced colitis. We engineered plasmid pETR14, containing the hlyB and hlyD genes of the Escherichia coli hemolysin operon, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ryan ET,Butterton JR,Smith RN,Carroll PA,Crean TI,Calderwood SB

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite antigens which bind to host cell molecules of approximately 32 and 34 kilodaltons (kDa) were identified in supernatant fluids obtained from axenic cultures of Trypanosoma cruzi. These parasite components were first detected in culture supernatants obtained after 2 weeks in culture. Immunoblot analysis of cult...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Davis CD,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00