Antibodies produced by rabbits immunized with visna virus.

abstract：:Infection with Histoplasma capsulatum results in a subclinical infection in immunocompetent hosts due to an effective cellular immune response. By contrast, immunodeficient individuals can have a severe disseminated and potentially fatal disease. In a previous study, it was demonstrated that normal mice infected intra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhou P,Sieve MC,Tewari RP,Seder RA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhea. Glutamine and its stable and highly soluble derivative alanyl-glutamine, have been beneficial in models of intestinal injury. In this study, we extend our work on the mechanisms of Clostridium difficile toxin A (TxA)-induced apoptosis in huma...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carneiro BA,Fujii J,Brito GA,Alcantara C,Oriá RB,Lima AA,Obrig T,Guerrant RL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our experiment was to evaluate the destructive potential of a strain of Actinomyces viscosus on the periodontium of sensitized rodents, describing the induced lesions on the basis of quantitative cytology. The experimental design comprised in principle the following procedures. Young germfree rats were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Guggenheim B,Schroeder HE

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from adult periodontitis patients were analyzed for antibody activity against surface antigens of Bacteroides gingivalis by immunoblotting analysis. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Naito Y,Okuda K,Takazoe I

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesophilic Aeromonas hydrophila strains of serotype O34 typically express smooth lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on their surface. A single mutation in the gene that codes for UDP N-acetylgalactosamine 4-epimerase (gne) confers the O(-) phenotype (LPS without O-antigen molecules) on a strain in serotypes O18 and O34, but not...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Canals R,Jiménez N,Vilches S,Regué M,Merino S,Tomás JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some interrelationships among age, ambient temperature, intestinal transit, and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection were studied in an infant mouse model. The transit of dye in the small intestine was accelerated during the response to heat-stable E. coli enterotoxin. Transit in the small intestine of normal mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moon HW,Fung PY,Isaacson RE,Booth GD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of meningitis and sepsis. A generally effective vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroup B is not yet available, but outer membrane vesicle vaccines are in development. These vaccines contain lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The inclusion of N. meningitidis wild-ty...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fransen F,Boog CJ,van Putten JP,van der Ley P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently introduced choleragen-induced rat foot edema model has been employed as a bioassay for evaluating the immunogenicity of three purified preparations containing cholera exo-enterotoxin antigen, choleragen, choleragenoid, and Formalin-treated choleragen (formagen). The results indicated that choleragen evoke...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Finkelstein RA,Hollingsworth RC

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig and mouse peritoneal macrophages in culture transport glucose by a specific, saturable system with characteristics compatible with facilitated diffusion. Phagocytosis of killed staphylococci or polystyrene latex spheres results in a significant increase in uptake of 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Reciprocal plot analys...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bonventre PF,Mukkada AJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In its canonical role the reverse transcriptase telomerase recovers the telomeric repeats that are lost during DNA replication. Other locations and activities have been recently described for the telomerase protein subunit TERT in mammalian cells. In the present work, using biochemistry, molecular biology, and electro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Campelo R,Díaz Lozano I,Figarella K,Osuna A,Ramírez JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of Chagas' disease is accompanied by immunosuppression. To explore the underlying mechanism(s), we used an in vitro culture system in which the capacities of activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to express interleukin-2 receptors (IL-2R) and proliferate are markedly inhibited in the prese...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beltz LA,Kierszenbaum F,Sztein MB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a deficiency in the C5 component of complement on the pathophyisology of infection with the fungal pathogen Candida albicans was studied by using the A/J inbred mouse strain and the BcA17 congenic mouse strain. Acute infection caused by intravenous injection of C. albicans blastospores is associated with...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mullick A,Leon Z,Min-Oo G,Berghout J,Lo R,Daniels E,Gros P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arg-gingipains are extracellular cysteine proteases produced by the gram-negative periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis and are encoded by rgpA and rgpB. Three Arg-gingipains, heterodimeric high-molecular-mass Arg-gingipain HRgpA comprising the alpha-catalytic chain and the beta-adhesin chain, the monomeric so...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rangarajan M,Hashim A,Aduse-Opoku J,Paramonov N,Hounsell EF,Curtis MA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After oral feeding of mice with avirulent Salmonella, Escherichia coli, or hybrid strains, only certain bacterial strains were able to multiply and persist within the small intestinal Peyer's patches. After oral vaccination alone, or oral priming and subsequent parenteral boosting, antibody class and titers were detec...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hohmann A,Schmidt G,Rowley D

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal exudate T lymphocytes from Listeria monocytogenes-immune mice in the presence of the homologous antigen (heat-killed L. monocytogenes) and normal macrophages showed L. monocytogenes-specific proliferative responses. Proliferation was inhibited by macrophages from L. monocytogenes- or Corynebacterium parvum-...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kaufmann SH,Simon MM,Hahn H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactomannan (GM) extracted from mycelia of Aspergillus fumigatus with cold dilute alkali reacted with antiserum specific for an antigen that circulated in invasive aspergillosis in rabbits and humans. The GM was purified by its affinity for concanavalin A and was separated from a nonantigenic glucan by gel permeatio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reiss E,Lehmann PF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple antigen peptide (MAP) approach is an effective method to chemically synthesize and deliver multiple T-cell and B-cell epitopes as the constituents of a single immunogen. Here we report on the design, chemical synthesis, and immunogenicity of three Plasmodium falciparum MAP vaccines that incorporated antig...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mahajan B,Berzofsky JA,Boykins RA,Majam V,Zheng H,Chattopadhyay R,de la Vega P,Moch JK,Haynes JD,Belyakov IM,Nakhasi HL,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ingestion of heat-killed Histoplasma capsulatum yeast cells on the metabolism of arachidonic acid (20:4) to prostenoids and leukotrienes was examined in murine peritoneal macrophages (M phi s). H. capsulatum-containing M phi s exhibited a metabolite profile similar to that of zymosan-challenged phagocyte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wolf JE,Massof SE,Peters SP

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possibility that nitric oxide (NO) synthesis may affect the course of a trypanosome infection via T-cell responses using mice deficient in inducible NO synthase (iNOS). Parasitemia levels increased at the same rate in both iNOS-deficient homozygous and control heterozygous mice, and peak paras...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Millar AE,Sternberg J,McSharry C,Wei XQ,Liew FY,Turner CM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a causative agent for many respiratory infections and has been associated with cardiovascular diseases in humans. The pathogenicity of C. pneumoniae is thought to depend on its ability to cause persistent infection and to evade host defense. Genome sequence analysis indicates that C. pneumoniae...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fan P,Dong F,Huang Y,Zhong G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have noted that the prevalence of certain gonococcal colony types is influenced by the physiological state of the human host. Consequently eight different gonococcal strains were passed on clear typing medium, and opaque (Op) and transparent (Tr) variants of heavily pilated (P++) bacteria were selecte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Salit IE,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial immunodiffusion procedures have been developed for testing bovine sera for the presence of antibody activity against three foot-and-mouth disease virus types and a virus infection-associated antigen. Reactions with virus antigens were obtained as early as 4 days after infection, and the virus type causing the r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wagner GG,Cowan KM,McVicar JW

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for isolating a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide (PS) from the slime of Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 1. The resultant material, obtained from the void volume of a Sephadex G-100 column, was composed of carbohydrate and water. No lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonoate, hepto...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pier GB,Sidberry HF,Zolyomi S,Sadoff JC

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans laccase expression during murine infection was investigated in lung tissue by immunohistochemistry and immunogold electron microscopy. Laccase was detected in the fungal cell cytoplasm, cell wall, and capsule in vivo. The amount of laccase found in different sites varied as a function of the ti...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Garcia-Rivera J,Tucker SC,Feldmesser M,Williamson PR,Casadevall A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the chromosomal DNA flanking the Actinomyces naeslundii (formerly A. viscosus) T14V type 1 fimbrial structural subunit gene (fimP) was determined. Six open reading frames (ORFs), in the order 5' ORF3, ORF2, ORF1,fimP, ORF4, ORF5, ORF6 3', were identified. ORF1 encoded a protein of 408 amino ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yeung MK,Ragsdale PA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of hemagglutinating and poorly hemagglutinating strains of the gastroduodenal pathogen Helicobacter pylori to bind 125I-radiolabelled laminin was quantitated in a liquid phase assay. Although all strains bound laminin, some hemagglutinating strains were good binders of laminin (maximum of 31% binding), whe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Valkonen KH,Wadström T,Moran AP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection caused by Plasmodium parasites continues to cause enormous morbidity and mortality in areas where it is endemic, and there is no licensed vaccine capable of inducing sterile protection. Hyperimmunization with attenuated whole sporozoites can induce sterile protective immune responses targeting preery...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Billman ZP,Seilie AM,Murphy SC

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii is an ascomycete phylogenetically related to Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Little is known about gene regulation in P. carinii. The removal of introns from pre-mRNA requires spliceosomal recognition of the intron-exon boundary. In S. pombe and higher eukaryotes, this boundary and a branch site within...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomas CF Jr,Leof EB,Limper AH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas salmonicida causes furunculosis in salmonids and is a threat to Atlantic salmon aquaculture. The epithelial surfaces that the pathogen colonizes are covered by a mucus layer predominantly comprised of secreted mucins. By using mass spectrometry to identify mucin glycan structures with and without enzymatic r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Padra JT,Sundh H,Sundell K,Venkatakrishnan V,Jin C,Samuelsson T,Karlsson NG,Lindén SK

更新日期：2017-07-19 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