Generation and maintenance of immune interferon-producing cells induced by allogeneic stimulation in mice.

abstract：:Pneumonic tularemia is a life-threatening disease caused by inhalation of the highly infectious intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. The most serious form of the disease associated with the type A strains can be prevented in experimental animals through vaccination with the attenuated live vaccine strain (L...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mara-Koosham G,Hutt JA,Lyons CR,Wu TH

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that Helicobacter pylori broth culture supernatants disrupt the actin cytoskeleton of epithelial cell lines, leading to cell rounding and apoptosis through anoikis. We demonstrate that there are marked quantitative differences between strains and that there are different cell line sensitivities. By constr...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bebb JR,Letley DP,Rhead JL,Atherton JC

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：:The importance of CD4+ cells and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in the resolution of established Cryptosporidium parvum infection was investigated with a murine model of cryptosporidiosis in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. C. parvum-infected SCID mice were reconstituted with spleen cells from immunocompeten...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Chen W,Harp JA,Harmsen AG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-containing immune complexes can be presented to phagocytes by human erythrocytes bearing complement receptor 1 (CR1). Although this has long been assumed to be a mechanism by which humans are able to protect themselves from "extracellular" bacteria such as pneumococci, there is little direct evidence. In th...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li J,Wang JP,Ghiran I,Cerny A,Szalai AJ,Briles DE,Finberg RW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a noninvasive food-borne pathogen that colonizes the distal ileum and colon. Proteins encoded in the EHEC locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island are known to contribute to this pathogen's adherence to epithelial cells and intestinal colonization. The role...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ho TD,Davis BM,Ritchie JM,Waldor MK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) from an Escherichia coli strain isolated from a human with diarrhea was cloned and characterized by nucleotide sequence analysis. The gene was found to be partially homologous to a previously characterized ST gene from an E. coli strain of bovine origin. Hybridization stu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Moseley SL,Hardy JW,Hug MI,Echeverria P,Falkow S

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus, 78-238, isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid of a dog with neurological dysfunction, was characterized as a paramyxovirus. This conclusion was supported by viral cytopathic effects and morphological appearance of virions and nucleocapsids in infected cells. Nucleocapsids were found in the cytoplasm of all in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baumgärtner WK,Metzler AE,Krakowka S,Koestner A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus surface layer proteins (SLPs), encoded by sapA homologues, are important in virulence. In wild-type C. fetus strain 23D, all eight sapA homologues are located in the 54-kb sap island, and SLP expression reflects the position of a unique sapA promoter in relation to the sapA homologues. The extensiv...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tu ZC,Hui J,Blaser MJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomallei group Burkholderia species are facultative intracellular parasites that spread efficiently from cell to cell by a mechanism involving the fusion of adjacent cell membranes. Intercellular fusion requires the function of the cluster 5 type VI secretion system (T6SS-5) and its associated valine-glycine repea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toesca IJ,French CT,Miller JF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of septic shock. Anti-TNF antibody was preadministered in low-dose endotoxin lethality models in which BALB/c mice were challenged with small amounts of lipopolysaccharide following their sensitization with either carrageenan (CAR) o...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Franks AK,Kujawa KI,Yaffe LJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pasteurella haemolytica mutant incapable of producing leukotoxin was created by allelic replacement. Concentrated culture supernatants from wild-type P. haemolytica, but not from the mutant, contained the 102-kDa leukotoxin protein and lysed bovine lymphoma cells and sheep erythrocytes. Wild-type P. haemolytica demo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy GL,Whitworth LC,Clinkenbeard KD,Clinkenbeard PA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common arthropod-borne disease in the United States. B. burgdorferi evades host immune defenses to establish a persistent, disseminated infection. Previous work showed that P66-deficient B. burgdorferi (Δp66) is cleared quickly after inoculation in mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Curtis MW,Hahn BL,Zhang K,Li C,Robinson RT,Coburn J

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments described herein, it was observed that guinea pigs with delayed-type hypersensitivity to tuberculoproteins under various experimental conditions, with or without passive transfer of serum from immune donors, manifested no acquired immunity against aerogenically induced tuberculosis. These results are di...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Reggiardo Z,Middlebrook G

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth in colonies with type 1 morphology and the presence of pili are characteristics that have been associated with virulence of gonococci for humans. To determine whether the presence of pili per se might be responsible for colony type 1 morphology, the relationship of pili to colony type was examined in various sp...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McGee ZA,Dourmashkin RR,Gross JG,Clark JB,Taylor-Robinson D

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Rickettsia prowazekii-infected L929 cells with gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) immediately after infection altered the lipid metabolism of the host cells as determined by measurement of phospholipid hydrolysis and oleic acid incorporation into phospholipids and neutral lipids. At 48 h postinfection, there wa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Winkler HH,Day L,Daugherty R,Turco J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are currently studying the soluble egg antigens of Schistosoma japonicum in an attempt to determine which antigens are potent immunogens. Previously, we demonstrated by Ouchterlony immunodiffusion and inhibition of the circumoval precipitin test that the glycoprotein fraction of soluble egg antigens contains the an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Long GW,Lewert RM,Pelley RP

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular cysteine protease from Streptococcus pyogenes is a virulence factor that plays a significant role in host-pathogen interaction. Streptococcal protease is expressed as an inactive 40-kDa precursor that is autocatalytically converted into a 28-kDa mature (active) enzyme. Replacement of the single cyste...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Matsuka YV,Pillai S,Gubba S,Musser JM,Olmsted SB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified protein antigens are usually poor immunogens; in practice, adjuvants are needed to obtain satisfactory immune responses. Plasmodium yoelii 19-kDa merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1(19)) is a weak antigen, but mice vaccinated with this antigen in strong adjuvants can survive an otherwise lethal parasite ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ogun SA,Dumon-Seignovert L,Marchand JB,Holder AA,Hill F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 (KMP-11) from Leishmania donovani is an abundant 11-kDa surface membrane glycoprotein. Lymph node cells from mice of six different H-2 haplotypes immunized with KMP-11 or with L. donovani promastigotes were stimulated to proliferate in vitro KMP-11. Primed purified T cells required an...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tolson DL,Jardim A,Schnur LF,Stebeck C,Tuckey C,Beecroft RP,Teh HS,Olafson RW,Pearson TW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has recently been shown to facilitate macrophage foam cell formation and has been suggested to be a proatherogenic factor. The mechanism of LPS induced cholesterol accumulation, however, is unclear. In this report, using the macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cell line, we provide experimental evidence...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Baranova I,Vishnyakova T,Bocharov A,Chen Z,Remaley AT,Stonik J,Eggerman TL,Patterson AP

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TB10.4 is a newly identified antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recognized by human and murine T cells upon mycobacterial infection. Here, we show that immunization with Mycobacterium bovis BCG induces a strong, genetically controlled, Th1 immune response against TB10.4 in mice. BALB/c and C57BL/6 strains behave as...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hervas-Stubbs S,Majlessi L,Simsova M,Morova J,Rojas MJ,Nouzé C,Brodin P,Sebo P,Leclerc C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene expression and cytokine release of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) after infection of human epithelial cells (HEp-2 cells) and polymorphonuclear granulocytes (PMNs) were investigated by using isogenic pairs of Listeria monocytogen...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Arnold R,Scheffer J,König B,König W

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium that causes bacillary dysentery in humans that is characterized by an acute inflammatory response of the colon. The fate of phagocytes that are infected in vitro with virulent Shigella has been the subject of some investigation and debate. In this study we found that viru...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Koterski JF,Nahvi M,Venkatesan MM,Haimovich B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major etiologic agent of nontyphoid salmonellosis in the United States. S. Enteritidis persistently and silently colonizes the intestinal and reproductive tract of laying hens, resulting in contaminated poultry products. The consumption of contaminated poul...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McKelvey JA,Yang M,Jiang Y,Zhang S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried and wet mouse fibroblast monolayers with labeled collagenous substrate were used to study the effects of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) on cellular prolyl hydroxylase activity. LTA is a scavenger of cations, and Fe2+ is essential for prolyl hydroxylase activity. Surprisingly, addition of LTA to dried monolayers resulte...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Leon O,Panos C

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While investigating the virulence traits of Staphylococcus aureus adhering to the skin of atopic-dermatitis (AD) patients, we identified a novel open reading frame (ORF) with structural similarity to a superantigen from genome sequence data of an isolate from AD skin. Concurrently, the same ORF was identified in a bov...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Aziz F,Hisatsune J,Yu L,Kajimura J,Sato'o Y,Ono HK,Masuda K,Yamaoka M,Salasia SIO,Nakane A,Ohge H,Kusunoki Y,Sugai M

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum-sensing systems are critical regulators of the expression of virulence factors of various organisms, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Las and Rhl are two major quorum-sensing components, and they are regulated by their corresponding autoinducers, N-3-oxododecanoyl homoserine lactone (3-oxo-C(12)-HSL) and N-but...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Tateda K,Ishii Y,Horikawa M,Matsumoto T,Miyairi S,Pechere JC,Standiford TJ,Ishiguro M,Yamaguchi K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella bronchiseptica is a Gram-negative bacterium that infects and causes disease in a wide variety of animals. B. bronchiseptica also infects humans, thereby demonstrating zoonotic transmission. An extensive characterization of human B. bronchiseptica isolates is needed to better understand the distinct genetic ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sukumar N,Nicholson TL,Conover MS,Ganguly T,Deora R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00