Key genes and pathways in tumor-educated dendritic cells by bioinformatical analysis.

abstract：:The present study deals with whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) is related to LPS-susceptibility of either mother or fetus and how LPS or LPS-induced TNF causes IUFD. LPS-susceptible C3H/HeN or -hypo-susceptible C3H/HeJ pregnant mice and the mice mated reciprocally with these mic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohmura Y,Kirikae T,Kirikae F,Nakano M,Sato I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerical analysis of 211 strains of rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria was carried out by using 116 characters. New species reported after 1981 and not yet compared with known species by numerical classification were included. At the level of 90% of the matching coefficient, the following species could...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsukamura M,Ichiyama S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the role of the route of immunization on the immunogenicity of killed Salmonella vaccine, mice were immunized with killed S. enteritidis by intraperitoneal (i.p.) and intradermal (i.d.) routes. Whereas the former was non-immunogenic, the i.d. immunization generated an excellent delayed-type hypersen...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： George A,Shroff KE,Rath S,Ghosh SN,Sengupta SR,Kamat RS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytes, human peritoneal macrophages, mouse peritoneal macrophages and human peripheral neutrophils pretreated with beta-1,3-D-polyglucose derivatives showed pronounced bactericidal capacity to Escherichia coli compared to control cells. The increased bactericidal capacity was detectable in mononuclear phagoc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rasmussen Busund LT,Konopski Z,Oian P,Seljelid R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of recombinant human interleukin-2 (rIL-2) administered prophylactically on the death of CBA/J mice challenged with Klebsiella pneumoniae 27 intraperitoneally were examined. rIL-2 administered subcutaneously at 20 micrograms per mouse for 7 days enhanced survival after a lethal challenge. The injection of ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iizawa Y,Nakao M,Kondo M,Yamazaki T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HMV-II cells infected with influenza C virus were labeled with inorganic [32P]phosphate to identify phosphorylated proteins. Analysis by radioimmunoprecipitation with antiviral serum or monoclonal antibodies revealed that three major structural proteins of the virus, hemagglutinin-esterase (HE), nucleoprotein (NP)...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishimura H,Sugawara K,Gao P,Muraki Y,Hongo S,Kitame F,Nakamura K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We elucidated the contribution of Valpha14 NKT cells to Th1 response and host resistance against mycobacterial infection. In Valpha14 NKT cell-deficient mice, host defense and DTH response to Mycobacterium bovis BCG were not different from wild-type mice after pulmonary infection. There was no significant difference i...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawakami K,Kinjo Y,Uezu K,Yara S,Miyagi K,Koguchi Y,Nakayama T,Taniguchi M,Saito A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slime-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis strain sensu strictu CNS23 was transformed by protoplast transformation with the plasmid pTV1 which carries transposon Tn 917. Using this transposon mutagenesis system we obtained the Tn917-inserted mutant CT512, which has lost the ability to produce slime. A single inser...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Grüter L,Feucht H,Mempel M,Laufs R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid western blot (WB) procedure for an abnormal isoform of prion protein (PrP(Sc) ) detection in lymphoid tissues was established and has been applied to the surveillance of fallen stock. In this program, brain and palatal tonsil were examined by WB and three cases of sheep scrapie were detected. While one clinicall...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimada K,Hayashi HK,Ookubo Y,Iwamaru Y,Imamura M,Takata M,Schmerr MJ,Shinagawa M,Yokoyama T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was purified and subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in discontinuous buffer systems. Three bands were revealed by staining with Coomassie blue; two of them (E1 and E2) were associated with the membrane, and one (C) with the core. Their molecular weights wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Konishi E,Hotta S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cholera-like enterotoxin was purified from Vibrio cholerae O139 strain AI-1841 isolated from a diarrheal patient in Bangladesh. Its characteristics were compared with that of cholera toxins (CTs) of classical strain 569B and El Tor strain KT25. Al-1841 produced as much toxin as O1 strains. The toxins were indistingu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakashima K,Eguchi Y,Nakasone N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Importance of the overexpression of AcrAB efflux pumps in the low-level resistance of pathogens to antimicrobials requires a better understanding of the AcrAB regulation. The goal of the present research was to study the transcription of acrAB, as well as the genes that play a role in its regulation in Salmonella ente...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hartog E,Ben-Shalom L,Shachar D,Matthews KR,Yaron S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with renal diseases are typically treated with immunosuppressive drugs, which place them at high risk of reactivation of the BK virus (BKV). Currently, little is known about the impact of immunosuppressive drugs on the kinetics of urinary shedding of BKV and viral reactivation in pediatric patients with renal...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Morooka M,Ihira M,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In malignant B lymphoma cells interleukin-10 (IL-10) expression is frequently upregulated. This effect is thought to support to the malignant transformation of these cells and to be a potential target for pharmacotherapy. To define better the mechanism for upregulation of the IL-10 gene, we tested the association betw...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Horie K,Ohashi M,Satoh Y,Sairenji T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated here the kinetics of natural killer (NK) cells and extrathymic T cells, which include intermediate CD3 cells and gamma delta T cells, in the cord factor-induced granulomatous inflammation of the lungs and liver. In Balb/c mice, pulmonary inflammation elevated the proportion of NK cells and that of extr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabata A,Kaneda K,Watanabe H,Abo T,Yano I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes a novel chemiluminescent assay of bacterial activity. Luminol chemiluminescence (LC) was amplified on addition of menadione to Escherichia coli suspension, and it was effectively inhibited by addition of superoxide dismutase rather than catalase. This fact suggests that H2O2 produced from O2 by sup...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamashoji S,Manome I,Ikedo M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of feces and vomit collected from patients during 13 non-bacterial gastroenteritis outbreaks which occurred in Hokkaido between 1995 and 1998 were examined by electron microscopy (EM) and reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for evidence of infection with human caliciviruses (HuCVs). In 6 f...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohyama T,Yoshizumi S,Sawada H,Uchiyama Y,Katoh Y,Hamaoka N,Utagawa E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal, thioglycollate-stimulated and BCG-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages were cultivated in vitro with the conditioned medium of mouse L-929 cells. The thioglycollate- and BCG-macrophages rapidly proliferated, whereas normal macrophages grew more slowly. A clear morphological difference between the three types...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nozawa RT,Yanaki N,Yokota T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An emetic toxin cereulide, produced by Bacillus cereus, causes emetic food poisonings, but a method for quantitative measurement of cereulide has not been well established. A current detection method is a bioassay method using the HEp-2 cell vacuolation test, but it was unable to measure an accurate concentration. We ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura-Sato K,Hirama Y,Agata N,Ito H,Torii K,Takeno A,Hasegawa T,Shimomura Y,Ohta M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative PCR (qPCR) of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) provirus is used for HTLV-1 testing and for assessment of risk of HTLV-1-related diseases. In this study, a reference material was developed for standardizing HTLV-1 qPCR. Freeze-dried TL-Om1 cells diluted with Jurkat cells were prepared and an ass...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuramitsu M,Okuma K,Nakashima M,Sato T,Sasaki D,Hasegawa H,Umeki K,Kubota R,Sasada K,Sobata R,Matsumoto C,Kaneko N,Tezuka K,Matsuoka S,Utsunomiya A,Koh KR,Ogata M,Ishitsuka K,Taki M,Nosaka K,Uchimaru K,Iwanaga M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) was reactivated more rapidly in cells of latently infected mouse trigeminal ganglia which were cultured in serum-free medium (after 3.7 days of cultivation) than in those cultured in serum-containing Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (after 8.5 days of cultivation). The concentrati...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of added maltose on the activities of a preparation of crude glucosyltransferases (GTases) and purified dextransucrase (DS) were investigated to elucidate the inhibition mechanism of maltose on the synthesis of water-insoluble glucan (ISG) in Streptococcus mutans HS-6. Tri- and tetra-saccharides produced b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukui K,Moriyama T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes, a group A Streptococcus (GAS), has been recognized as the causative pathogen in patients with severe invasive streptococcal infection with or without necrotizing fasciitis. In recent epidemiological studies, Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) has been isolated from severe inva...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe S,Takemoto N,Ogura K,Miyoshi-Akiyama T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VacA, a secretory product of Helicobacter pylori, binds to its cell surface receptor, receptor tyrosine phosphatase (RPTP) beta, leading to cytoplasmic vacuolization of gastric epithelial AZ-521 cells. VacA binding to the cell surface and VacA-dependent vacuolization were inhibited by cell culture media containing fet...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura T,Wada A,Nakayama M,Ogushi K,Nishi Y,De Guzman BB,Moss J,Hirayama T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase III beta (PI4KB) has emerged as a conserved target of anti-picornavirus compounds. In the present study, PI4KB was identified as the direct target of the plant-derived anti-picornavirus compounds, oxoglaucine and pachypodol (also known as Ro 09-0179). PI4KB was also ident...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Arita M,Philipov S,Galabov AS

更新日期：2015-06-01 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 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：:Sequence analysis of the gene encoding the major neutralization glycoprotein (VP7) was performed on sixteen human isolates of serotype 2 of rotavirus in Japan, China, and Pakistan and their genetic variations were examined. Comparative studies of their nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences between the sixteen is...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wen L,Ushijima H,Kakizawa J,Fang ZY,Nishio O,Morikawa S,Motohiro T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-1,3-glucan is a major component of fungal cell walls with various biological activities, including effects on the production of inflammatory mediators in vivo and in vitro. However, few reports have examined its influence on the fungal cell itself. In this study, the influences of β-1,3-glucan on the growth and cell...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishibashi K,Kurone Y,Motoi M,Miura NN,Adachi Y,Shirasu Y,Ohno N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00