Characterization of the mechanism of action of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin.

abstract：:Neonates born to female guinea pigs of either a highly susceptible (C4D) or a resistant (Albany) strain, infected prior to or during pregnancy with a single dose of Treponema pallidum, showed in their sera from the first day of life immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies to T. pallidum, circulating immune complexes consist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wicher K,Baughn RE,Wicher V,Nakeeb S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Live or heat-killed cells of Streptococcus mutans specifically adhere to dextran previously synthesized on glass surfaces by the action of extracellular dextransucrase. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to characterize the properties of the interaction of pertussis toxin with human polymorphonuclear leukocytes for the modulation of leukotriene generation and metabolism. The cells were stimulated with either the Ca ionophore A23187, opsonized zymosan, or the bacterial peptide formyl-methio...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hensler T,Raulf M,Megret F,Alouf JE,König W

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of female C57BL/6 and C3H/St mice were inoculated intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 10(9), 10(7), and 10(5) bacilli and into the right hind footpad with 10(7) and 10(5) bacilli of Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The incidence of death from leprosy and the mean survival time of leprous mice were recorded. In addition, t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Turcotte R

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When type I Candida stellatoidea is plated onto sucrose agar at levels in excess of 10(8) cells, some isolates spontaneously form sucrose-positive colonies. These isolates do not display typical type I phenotypes but instead exhibit phenotypes intermediate between type I C. stellatoidea and C. albicans. Also, this phe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wickes BL,Golin JE,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence of blastoconidia to epidermal corneocytes is an early event in Candida colonization and infection of the skin. Pathogenic species adhere more avidly than nonpathogenic species, transform to hyphal growth, and invade the stratum corneum of the skin. Adherence was studied by scanning electron microscopy of exp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ray TL,Payne CD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumolysin, the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin of Streptococcus pneumoniae, induces inflammatory and apoptotic events in mammalian cells. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) confers resistance to pneumococcal infection via its interaction with pneumolysin, but the underlying mechanisms remain to be identified. In the presen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Srivastava A,Henneke P,Visintin A,Morse SC,Martin V,Watkins C,Paton JC,Wessels MR,Golenbock DT,Malley R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-malnourished rats had greater numbers of bacteria in their livers and spleens compared with numbers in control rats following a sublethal intraperitoneal dose of Salmonella typhimurium. However, the febrile responses of both groups of rats to infection were similar. The ability to mount a normal febrile respon...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bradley SF,Kauffman CA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-kDa hemolytic protein, referred to as cystalysin, from Treponema denticola ATCC 35404 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli LC-67. Both the native and recombinant 46-kDa proteins were purified to homogeneity. Both proteins expressed identical biological and functional characteristics. In addition to its biologica...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chu L,Ebersole JL,Kurzban GP,Holt SC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the antigenicity of a wild-type flagellate and motile (F+M+) Campylobacter jejuni strain (81116) and two daughter mutants, one flagellate and immotile (F+M-) and one aflagellate and immotile (F-M-). By sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of acid-extracted surface proteins, a 63-kilodal...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Blaser MJ,Hopkins JA,Perez-Perez GI,Cody HJ,Newell DG

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salivary and serum immune responses to orally administered glucosyltransferase antigen complex from Streptococcus mutants strain 6715 were investigated in hamsters. All enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure the antibody quantity and isotype, and a [14C]glucosyl-labeled sucrose incorporation assay w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Smith DJ,Taubman MA,Ebersole JL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender is a significant factor in determining the susceptibility to and severity of pulmonary diseases in both humans and animals. Murine respiratory mycoplasmosis (MRM), due to Mycoplasma pulmonis infection, is an excellent animal model for evaluation of the role of various host factors on the development of acute or...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Yancey AL,Watson HL,Cartner SC,Simecka JW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two glucosyltransferase genes from Streptococcus mutans GS-5, gtfB and gtfC, have been previously isolated and sequenced in this laboratory. In the present communication a third gtf gene, gtfD, was isolated and characterized. Isolation of the gene involved a novel procedure utilizing the integration plasmid pVA891. A ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hanada N,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of antibody in protection against infection with Cryptococcus neoformans is undefined. In this paper we describe the development of opsonic activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of rabbits in response to cryptococcal meningitis. The opsonin appeared to be immunoglobulin G (IgG); the activity was heat stab...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hobbs MM,Perfect JR,Granger DL,Durack DT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of cytosolic (intracellular) Ca(2+) concentration (Ca(i)) may be an important host response when airway epithelial cells are exposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We measured Ca(i) in Calu-3 cells exposed from the apical or basolateral surface to cytotoxic and noncytotoxic strains of P. aeruginosa. Apical addi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacob T,Lee RJ,Engel JN,Machen TE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were partially characterized and tested for their ability to inhibit penetration of Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells by sporozoites of Eimeria bovis. By indirect fluorescent-antibody assays, all MAbs reacted with acetone-fixed sporozoites, but only two MAbs, EbS9 (immunoglobulin...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Whitmire WM,Kyle JE,Speer CA,Burgess DE

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of soybean meal in the diet of gnotobiotic mice was shown to prevent the establishment of a clostridial strain in the gastrointestinal tract. Soybean meal did not inhibit the growth of Clostridium in vitro, suggesting that the host plays a role in the observed inhibition of bacterial growth. The inhibitor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lhuillery C,Demarne Y,Ducluzeau R,Clara A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemiluminescence of human alveolar macrophages (AM) was evaluated in vitro. Unstimulated AM generated chemiluminescence that remained constant during incubation. Addition of heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus 502A (HKB) or a chemical agent, phorbol myristate acetate, produced high rates of chemiluminescence that were ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Beall GD,Repine JE,Hoidal JR,Rasp FL

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that can initiate mucosal infection after conjunctival exposure. The anatomical route of T. cruzi invasion and spread after conjunctival parasite contamination remains poorly characterized. In the present work we have identified the sites of initial invasion and replication af...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Giddings OK,Eickhoff CS,Smith TJ,Bryant LA,Hoft DF

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent Streptococcus suis serotype 2 strains are invasive extracellular bacteria causing septicemia and meningitis in piglets and humans. One objective of this study was to elucidate the function of complement in innate immune defense against S. suis. Experimental infection of wild-type (WT) and C3(-/-) mice demonst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Seitz M,Beineke A,Singpiel A,Willenborg J,Dutow P,Goethe R,Valentin-Weigand P,Klos A,Baums CG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosal humoral immune response elicited following Shigella flexneri infection in patients living in Antananarivo districts (Madagascar Island) was evaluated by measuring the gut-derived, circulating immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody-secreting cells (ASC) specific for the major bacterial antigen lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rasolofo-Razanamparany V,Cassel-Beraud AM,Roux J,Sansonetti PJ,Phalipon A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for agents designed to modify immune response in the treatment of patients with viral infection, immunodeficiency, or cancer prompted the present study on the mechanisms of action of isoprinosine, a compound developed for antiviral use and whose therapeutic activity may involve the immune system. The effect o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hadden JW,Hadden EM,Coffey RG

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotypes A and B of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae produce different disease manifestations in infected mice. Whereas serotype B causes more severe arthritis and reaches higher densities in the blood of mice than serotype A, serotype A invades the central nervous system earlier than serotype B duri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Pennington PM,Cadavid D,Barbour AG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarticular brucellosis is the most common complication in Brucella-infected humans regardless of age, sex, or immune status. The mechanism of bone destruction caused by Brucella species remained partially unknown due to the lack of a suitable animal model. Here, to study this complication, we explored the suitabil...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Khalaf OH,Chaki SP,Garcia-Gonzalez DG,Ficht TA,Arenas-Gamboa AM

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma salivarium cells propagated in PPLO broth (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.) supplemented with rabbit serum (10% [vol/vol]) and harvested by centrifugation were shown to contain rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG) (approximately 4 to 10% of total cell proteins) and to produce IgM autoantibodies to IgG when inoc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe T,Shibata K,Hasegawa K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis of unopsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395, MR-10, opsonized Salmonella typhimurium 395 MS, and Staphylococcus epidermidis by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes was inhibited by heparin at concentrations as low as 0.5 U/ml. Inhibition was dose dependent and nearly complete at 20 U/ml. Provided that hepari...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Victor M,Weiss J,Elsbach P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific T-cell responses and histopathological changes were studied in mice experimentally inoculated with Borrelia burgdorferi B31. Inbred mice with different H-2 haplotypes and/or different genetic backgrounds were inoculated with B. burgdorferi organisms and tested for antigen-specific T-cell responses in ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schaible UE,Kramer MD,Justus CW,Museteanu C,Simon MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies identified two iron-regulated cytoplasmic membrane proteins of 32 and 36 kDa expressed by both Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus. In this study we show by Triton X-114 phase partitioning and tritiated palmitic acid labelling that these proteins are lipoproteins which are anchore...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cockayne A,Hill PJ,Powell NB,Bishop K,Sims C,Williams P

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an amphipathic macromolecule that is highly aggregated in aqueous preparations. LPS-binding protein (LBP) catalyzes the transfer of single LPS molecules, segregated from an LPS aggregate, to high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which results in the neutralization of LPS. When fluorescein isothi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Haas CJ,Poppelier MJ,van Kessel KP,van Strijp JA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal and opsonizing effects of normal human serum on six strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT-2 having different lipopolysaccharide (LPS) composition were demonstrated through five indices. Complement activity in the presence of antibody was important for the opsonization of all six strains and for the bac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shaio MF,Rowland H

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00