Location of feline leukemia-sarcoma group-specific antigen in infected human tissue culture cells.

abstract：:Mannan (MAN) extracted from Candida albicans 20A was investigated for its potential as an antigen in the detection of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in vivo and in vitro and for its ability to modulate CMI when administered intravenously (i.v.). CBA/J mice were either immunized as adults by the cutaneous inoculation of ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Domer JE,Garner RE,Befidi-Mengue RN

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we showed that the involvement of EP4 subtype of the prostaglandin E (PGE) receptor is crucial for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced osteoclast formation in vitro. The present study was undertaken to test whether EP4 is actually associated with LPS-induced bone resorption in vivo. In wild-type (WT) ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sakuma Y,Tanaka K,Suda M,Komatsu Y,Yasoda A,Miura M,Ozasa A,Narumiya S,Sugimoto Y,Ichikawa A,Ushikubi F,Nakao K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure was developed to purify dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) from a sonic extract of a serotype D strain of Pasteurella multocida. Sonic extract containing DNT was applied to a DEAE-Sephacel column and eluted by a linear gradient of NaCl. Upon rechromatographing, fractions with dermonecrotic activity for guinea pigs ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nakai T,Sawata A,Tsuji M,Samejima Y,Kume K

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin is a 471-amino-acid toxin produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae which has both cytolytic and complement activation properties. We have constructed a derivative of the type 2 S. pneumoniae strain D39 in which the portion of the pneumolysin gene encoding amino acids 55 to 437 has been deleted in-frame. The vi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Berry AM,Ogunniyi AD,Miller DC,Paton JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a purified beta-propiolactone-inactivated rabies virus, a significant increase in footpad swelling was elicited in normal or in BCG-pretreated mice after immunization with varying doses of rabies vaccine. These footpad reactions were shown to peak at 24 h and to be associated with an infiltration of newly formed ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lagrange PH,Tsiang H,Hurtrel B,Ravisse P

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant 23-kDa protein (rBPI23) derived from human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) possesses potent endotoxin-neutralizing abilities in vitro and in vivo. Binding of rBPI23 to those endotoxins (lipopolysaccharides [LPSs]) encountered clinically would be a prerequisite for efficacy in decreasin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Appelmelk BJ,An YQ,Thijs BG,MacLaren DM,de Graaff J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane and soluble fractions of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. pulmonis, and M. laidlawii B were prepared by hypotonic lysis of whole cells. The membranes of M. pneumoniae and M. laidlawii B contained, as percentage of dry weight: 34 to 37% protein, 59 to 61% lipid, 3 to 4% carbohydrate as hexose, and 0.2% ribonucleic ac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to show that subcutaneous inoculation of a sublethal number of Listeria monocytogenes resulted in the early appearance of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-producing cells in the draining lymph nodes. In contrast, inoculation of UV-killed L. monocytogenes failed to cause th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Dunn PL,North RJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we characterized various genetic markers and the biological behavior of a natural recombinant strain of Toxoplasma gondii (P-Br). From nine genetic markers analyzed, three (B1, ROP1, and SAG1) and three (cS10-A6, GRA6, and SAG3) markers belong to parasites from the type I and type III lineages, respectively. Th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fux B,Rodrigues CV,Portela RW,Silva NM,Su C,Sibley D,Vitor RW,Gazzinelli RT

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) play a critical role in S. aureus pathogenesis. FnBPs mediate adhesion to fibronectin and invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, by fibronectin bridging to the host cell fibronectin receptor integrin (alpha(5))b...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Grundmeier M,Hussain M,Becker P,Heilmann C,Peters G,Sinha B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the d15 gene from two strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and two strains of nontypeable H. influenzae (NTHI). The nucleotide and deduced protein sequences of d15 are highly conserved, with only a small variable region identified near the carboxyl terminus of the protein. Analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Loosmore SM,Yang YP,Coleman DC,Shortreed JM,England DM,Klein MH

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modification triggered by bacteria is a newly described mechanism by which pathogens impact host transcription. Listeria monocytogenes dephosphorylates histone H3 through the action of listeriolysin O (LLO); however, the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here we show that an unrelated pore-forming toxin, Aero...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hamon MA,Cossart P

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Comparative studies on the virulence of two strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from otic pus and mink pneumonic lesion, respectively, were made by means of intranasal inoculation in mink. The minimal lethal dose of the former (strain NC-5, highly virulent for mice) was 10(10), and that of the latter (strain No...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shimizu T,Homma JY,Aoyama T,Onodera T,Noda H

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 9 contained an antigenic component giving a reaction of total identity with Brucella native hapten and polysaccharide B. This component was present in a phenol-water extract (fraction 5; M. Redfearn, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1960) along with the smooth lipopolysa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fernandez-Lago L,Moriyon I,Toyos J,Diaz R

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging cause of diarrheal illness. Clinical data suggest that diarrhea caused by EAEC is predominantly secretory in nature, but the responsible enterotoxin has not been described. Work from our laboratories has implicated a ca. 108-kDa protein as a heat-labile enteroto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eslava C,Navarro-García F,Czeczulin JR,Henderson IR,Cravioto A,Nataro JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytoplasmic 75-kDa immunogen from Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 has previously been characterized as being similar to the Escherichia coli heat shock protein DnaK. We have localized a linear epitope for one monoclonal antibody specific for C. trachomatis DnaK. By use of a recombinant DNA technique, the epitope wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Birkelund S,Larsen B,Holm A,Lundemose AG,Christiansen G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-driven macrophage apoptosis contributes to innate immunity during bacterial infection. Neisseria meningitidis inhibits apoptosis in a variety of cells, but its impact on macrophage apoptosis is unknown. We demonstrate that N. meningitidis prevents macrophage apoptosis via genes encoding nitric oxide detoxificatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tunbridge AJ,Stevanin TM,Lee M,Marriott HM,Moir JW,Read RC,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to induce experimental arthritis in rats by systematically testing the effect of Yersinia infections in five strains of rats, using the intragastric, intraperitoneal, and intravenous routes of inoculation. We observed that Lewis rats which were given 10(4) to 10(5) Yersinia enterocolitica WA organisms via...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hill JL,Yu DT

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a Sprague-Dawley rat model for chronic osteomyelitis. Staphylococcus aureus and sodium morrhuate were implanted by either microdrilling or direct needle injection into the tibiae of rats. Of 107 rats, 87 (81%) developed osteomyelitis when a high-speed drill was used for implantation, and 27 (51%) of 5...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rissing JP,Buxton TB,Weinstein RS,Shockley RK

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats kept under germfree conditions showed lower specific lysosomal enzyme activities in liver endothelial cells, but not in Kupffer cells. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Knook DL,Barkway C,Sleyster EC

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both interleukin-17A (IL-17A) and IL-17F are proinflammatory cytokines that have an important role in intestinal homeostasis via receptor signaling. These cytokines have been characterized in chickens, but very little is known about their receptors and their functional activity. We provide here the first description o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kim WH,Jeong J,Park AR,Yim D,Kim S,Chang HH,Yang SH,Kim DH,Lillehoj HS,Min W

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By subcutaneous treatment with an aqueous solution of 6-O-stearoyl-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine [6-O-CH3-(CH2)16-CO-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-isoGln] [referred to here as L18-MDP(Ala)], an augmentation of the resistance of mice to Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida albicans in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Osada Y,Mitsuyama M,Une T,Matsumoto K,Otani T,Satoh M,Ogawa H,Nomoto K

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio mimicus 61892, isolated in 1977 from a case of watery diarrhea in Bangladesh, produces an enterotoxin which possesses activity in Y-1 mouse adrenal cells and in rabbit ileal loops which is identical to the prototype cholera toxin (CT) produced by Vibrio cholerae 569B. The neutralization of the adrenal cell acti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Spira WM,Fedorka-Cray PJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, a bioterrorism attack involving Bacillus anthracis spore-laced letters resulted in 22 cases of inhalation anthrax, with five fatalities. This incident identified gaps in our health care system and precipitated a renewed interest in identifying both therapeutics and rapid diagnostic assays. To address those ga...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rossi CA,Ulrich M,Norris S,Reed DS,Pitt LM,Leffel EK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain Jamaica suspended in oil-droplet emulsions was used to enhance resistance of mice against encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV). The mycobacteria-injected mice were significantly resistant to 50,000 50% lethal doses of EMCV. Similar concentrations of virus in plasma of normal an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lodmell DL,Ewalt LC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal growth conditions have been established for production of heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) by both porcine and human strains of enterotoxigenic (ENT(+)) Escherichia coli. There were no unusual growth factor requirements, and some strains produced fairly high levels of LT in a basal salts medium containing 0.5% glu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gilligan PH,Robertson DC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary studies established methods for obtaining maximum yields of viable cells. Liquid shaken cultures of Histoplasma capsulatum provided a maximum of 4 x 10(8) to 5 x 10(8) cells/ml regardless of the inoculum size. Under optimum conditions, cells were viable (90 to 95%) for 168 to 240 hr. Generation times range...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia JP,Howard DH

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important opportunistic pathogen and is the etiological agent of many hospital- and community-acquired infections. The golden pigment, staphyloxanthin, of S. aureus colonies distinguishes it from other staphylococci and related Gram-positive cocci. Staphyloxanthin is the product of a series...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hall JW,Yang J,Guo H,Ji Y

更新日期：2017-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric mucosa and secretes a pore-forming toxin (VacA). Two main types of VacA, m1 and m2, can be distinguished by phylogenetic analysis. Type m1 forms of VacA have been extensively studied, but there has been relatively little study of m2 forms. In this study, we generated H. pylori...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Caston RR,Sierra JC,Foegeding NJ,Truelock MD,Campbell AM,Frick-Cheng AE,Bimczok D,Wilson KT,McClain MS,Cover TL

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00