Suppression of phorbol myristate acetate-triggering of macrophage H2O2 release by sarcoma 180 originating factor.

abstract：:Nineteen strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from wild ducks in Japan were placed into 4 distinct antigenic groups on the basis of their reactivities to 8 monoclonal antibodies against the HN molecule of NDV in hemagglutination inhibition tests. The NDV strains of duck origin were antigenically distinct ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawamura M,Nagata-Matsubara K,Nerome K,Yamane N,Kida H,Kodama H,Izawa H,Mikami T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and serovar Paratyphi A with reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones (MICs of ciprofloxacin, 0.25 to 2 microg/ml) have a mutation at codon either Ser-83 or Asp-87 of gyrA gene. A screening method by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was designed to screen the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hirose K,Tamura K,Watanabe H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain with affinity to Candida albicans was successfully obtained from a natural environment. An uncovered Petri dish containing a suspension of heat-killed C. albicans cells was allowed to stand in a laboratory for several days. Some bacteria which had adhered to the candidal cells were tested for their ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Seki K,Kobayashi K,Tomiya Y,Sakurada J,Murai M,Usui A,Masuda S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that immunization of mice with plasmid pMEa synthesizing Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) envelope protein induced anti-JEV humoral and cellular immune responses. We now show that intra-muscular co-administration of mice with pMEa and pGM-CSF, encoding murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-sti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bharati K,Appaiahgari MB,Vrati S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important toxin-antitoxin (TA) system hok/sok, encoded by R1 plasmid of Escherichia coli, is involved in the post segregation killing of cells that have lost the plasmid. The lethal properties of hok protein have been utilized for the environmental containment of microbes and the development of potential vaccine ca...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kaur A,Muthukumarappa T,Kanta P,Banday AZ,Chidananda MK

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to study the alterations of CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) T(regs) in HIV-infected SPs and to examine the role of T(regs) in the disease progression of HIV. The proportion of CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) T(regs) in peripheral blood of 24 SPs, 30 asymptomatic HIV-infected patients, 20 AIDS patients, and 16 non-in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhang Z,Jiang Y,Zhang M,Liu J,Sun G,Shi W,Wang Y,Shang H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L forms of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 conferred strong protection to a lethal challenge with its parental bacterium on innately hypersusceptible C3H/HeJ mice, and its minimal protective dose was approximately 150 L-forming units. Although L-form S. typhimurium was avirulent for C3H/HeJ mice, it multiplied slowly in bo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikawa F,Kita E,Yamada H,Nakano A,Kashiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis. The importance of urban leptospirosis is recognized in Japan: urban rats carry pathogenic leptospires and people acquire these pathogens through contact with surface water or soil contaminated by the urine of the infected animals. To determine the current Leptospira carriage rate...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito M,Villanueva SY,Masuzawa T,Haraguchi Y,Ita S,Miyahara S,Ozuru R,Yamaguchi T,Yoshimura M,Ikejiri M,Aramaki N,Amran MY,Muslich LT,Iida K,Yanagihara Y,Gloriani NG,Yoshida S

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:We established an assay system for detecting T cell-replacing factor (TRF) activity of translated materials in Xenopus oocytes of poly (A)-positive mRNA extracted from a T cell hybrid cell line, B151K12 (B151) which constitutively produces TRF. Since it was difficult to detect TRF activity of the translated products o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tominaga A,Matsumoto M,Takahashi T,Harada N,Takatsu K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activities of lipopolysaccharide-like substance (LLS) extracted from Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola strain Moulton by the hot phenol-water method were studied in mice. The addition of 12.5 micrograms/ml or more of LLS fraction increased the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into in vitro cultured ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Matsusaka E,Takayanagi K,Masuzawa T,Iwamoto Y,Morita T,Mifuchi I,Yanagihara Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：: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：:Antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate host defense against a number of bacteria and fungal pathogens. Some of antimicrobial synthetic peptides were systemically administered in vivo; however, effective protection has so far not been obtained because the effective dose of peptides in vivo seems to be very high, o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamamoto K,Kida Y,Zhang Y,Shimizu T,Kuwano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemadsorption (HAD) induced in HEp-2 cells infected with vaccinia virus was observed. In ultrathin sections, binding of 36 red blood cells (RBCs) was examined in detail and 3 types of HAD were observed: (1) direct and close binding of RBCs to infected HEp-2 cells (cyto-HAD) was observed in cross sections of 27 RBCs (2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saburi Y,Okuda K,Takahashi T,Tadokoro I

更新日期：1977-10-20 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：:A recombinant pertussis DNA vaccine was described here with its immunogenicity and the ability to induce protection against B. pertussis infection in mice. Three immunodominant antigen gene fragments of pertussis, pertussis toxin subunit 1 (pts1), fragments of pertactin (prn) and filamentous hemagglutinin (fha), were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Li Q,Zhu Y,Chu J,Wang Y,Xu Y,Hou Q,Zhang S,Guo X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed the effects of a chinese herb medicine Sho-saiko-to on the lethal and antitumor activities of recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (rhTNF) administered in mice. Sho-saiko-to was noted to protect the rhTNF-induced lethality in galactosamine-hypersensitized mice, and also Sho-saiko-to pretreated mice was ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Tutumi E,Yokota K,Furusawa S,Sasaki K,Takayanagi Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) core protein is detected not only in the cytoplasm but also in the nucleoli of infected cells. We previously showed that a mutant JEV lacking the nucleolar localization of the core protein impaired viral replication in mammalian cells. In this study, we identified a nucleolar phosphop...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuda Y,Mori Y,Abe T,Yamashita T,Okamoto T,Ichimura T,Moriishi K,Matsuura Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I was incubated with monolayers of cells derived from several portions of mouse kidney, and found to be ingested by all types of the renal cells. Intracellular localization of S. aureus was determined by resistance of intracellular cocci against lysostaphin digestion and confirmed by electr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murai M,Usui A,Seki K,Sakurada J,Masuda S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological analyses of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) isolated from Proteus strains OX2, OX19, and OXK used as antigens of Weil-Felix (WF) test, were performed by quantitative agglutination, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and immunoblotting. Antisera against LPS and whole cells (WC) of the three Proteus stra...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Amano K,Mizushiri S,Fujii S,Fukushi K,Suto T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an effective system to eliminate poliovirus from modified tap water using a positively-charged carbon felt electrode. The zeta potential of polioviruses was measured using laser microscopic electrophoresis. Poliovirus adsorption to the electrode was examined by indirect immunofluorescence. The tissue cult...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kondo Y,Morita Y,Yamada A,Kimura H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB) plays a critical role in regulating expression of genes responsible for a wide range of cellular processes, including innate and adoptive immune responses, and pathways related to cell survival and proliferation. Based on its property as a transcription factor, NF-kappaB has been...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isomura I,Morita A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoelectron microscopic study was performed to determine the distribution of antigenic components on particles of Chlamydia psittaci and infected cells using a number of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Of three anti-lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antibodies (4D5, A2 and 4G5), two antibodies (4D5 and A2) reacted with the...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ando S,Takashima I,Hashimoto N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wilms' tumor gene WT1 is overexpressed in various types of solid tumors, including lung and breast cancer and WT1 protein is a tumor antigen for these malignancies. In phase I clinical trials of WT1 peptide-based cancer immunotherapy, two patients with advanced lung cancer were intradermally injected with 0.3 mg o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuboi A,Oka Y,Osaki T,Kumagai T,Tachibana I,Hayashi S,Murakami M,Nakajima H,Elisseeva OA,Fei W,Masuda T,Yasukawa M,Oji Y,Kawakami M,Hosen N,Ikegame K,Yoshihara S,Udaka K,Nakatsuka S,Aozasa K,Kawase I,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butanol-extracted water-soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA) obtained from Bacterionema matruchotii was cultured with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) in the presence of sub- and/or supra-optimal mitogenic concentrations of concanavalin A (Con A). The addition of Bu-WSA resulted in increased tritiated thymidine incorpora...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Okumura S,Tsushi M,Nakano M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylcellulose-elicited peritoneal macrophages from BALB/c mice were cultivated in vitro and inoculated with dengue virus (DV). At intervals thereafter portions of the culture fluids were taken and titrated for viral infectivity. Extracts from Ascaris suum and Parascaris equorum, either crude or Sephadex G-100 fracti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wiharta AS,Hotta H,Hotta S,Matsumura T,Sujudi,Tsuji M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes express multiple TLRs that regulate their cytokine production.We investigated the effect of TLR4 and TLR9 activation on receptor activator of NF‐kB ligand (RANKL) expression by rat spleen B cells. Splenocytes or purified spleen B cells from Rowett rats were cultured with TLR4 ligand Escherichia coli LPS ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yu X,Lin J,Yu Q,Kawai T,Taubman MA,Han X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of 33 compounds of L-alanine analogues over a wide range of concentrations to initiate germination of Bacillus subtilis spores was determined, and the inhibitory activity against L-alanine-initiated germination was determined for the above compounds and 22 of their D- and DL-isomers. Nineteen L-isomers wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00