Lipopolysaccharide interaction with rabbit erythrocyte membranes.

abstract：:Vascular response is an essential aspect of an effective immune response to periodontal disease pathogens, as new blood vessel formation contributes to wound healing and inflammation. Gaining a greater understanding of the factors that affect vascular response may then contribute to future breakthroughs in dental medi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mendes RT,Nguyen D,Stephens D,Pamuk F,Fernandes D,Van Dyke TE,Kantarci A

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms linking the immune response to cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis (CL and ML, respectively) lesions and the response to treatment are incompletely understood. Our aims were to prospectively assess, by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, the levels of mRNA for gamma interferon, tumor necrosis factor...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Maurer-Cecchini A,Decuypere S,Chappuis F,Alexandrenne C,De Doncker S,Boelaert M,Dujardin JC,Loutan L,Dayer JM,Tulliano G,Arevalo J,Llanos-Cuentas A,Chizzolini C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite effective antimicrobial chemotherapy, control of Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital infection will likely require a vaccine. We have assessed the protective effect of an outer membrane protein-based vaccine by using a murine model of chlamydial genital infection. Female mice were first vaccinated with Chlamydia ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Farris CM,Morrison SG,Morrison RP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously determined that complement receptors on human mononuclear phagocytes and complement component C3 in nonimmune serum mediate phagocytosis of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, the agent of leprosy. We have also determined that C3 fixes selectively to the major surface glycolip...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Schlesinger LS,Horwitz MA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a possible cause-and-effect relationship between sensitization against Actinomyces viscosus Nyl and destructive periodontal disease in RIC-Sprague-Dawley rats. Germfree rats (66) were either immunized with A. viscosus Nyl (day 20) or orally infected with A. viscosus Nyl (days 38 and 39) or both. We mea...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Burckhardt JJ,Gaegauf-Zollinger R,Schmid R,Guggenheim B

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional mutagenesis studies of mrpB, a putative pilin-encoding open reading frame of the mrp gene cluster, which encodes mannose-resistant Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbriae of Proteus mirabilis, indicate that MrpB functions as the terminator for fimbrial assembly. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Li X,Mobley HL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fab fragments prepared from the immunoglobulin G monoclonal antibody (MAb) 4C12, which reacts with a determinant expressed on the hyphal extension of germ tubes of Candida albicans, inhibited germ tube formation, but intact MAb 4C12 did not. Indirect immunofluorescence showed a punctate binding pattern on cells incuba...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Casanova M,Martínez JP,Chaffin WL

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane of pathogenic Leptospira species grown in culture media contains lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a porin (OmpL1), and several lipoproteins, including LipL36 and LipL41. The purpose of this study was to characterize the expression and distribution of these outer membrane antigens during renal infection. Ha...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Barnett JK,Barnett D,Bolin CA,Summers TA,Wagar EA,Cheville NF,Hartskeerl RA,Haake DA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of infection and the pathogenic effects on the reproductive function of laboratory mice infected with Bartonella birtlesii recovered from an Apodemus species are described. B. birtlesii infection, as determined by bacteremia, occurred in BALB/c mice inoculated intravenously. Inoculation with a low-dose in...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Boulouis HJ,Barrat F,Bermond D,Bernex F,Thibault D,Heller R,Fontaine JJ,Piémont Y,Chomel BB

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has a number of outer membrane proteins that are differentially regulated during its life cycle. In addition to their physiological functions in the organism, these proteins also likely serve different functions in invasiveness and immune evasion. In borreliae, as well ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Toledo A,Coleman JL,Kuhlow CJ,Crowley JT,Benach JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most potent trigger substances for monocytes and macrophages causing secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and other inflammatory mediators. The nature of the nuclear factors involved in human TNF-alpha gene regulation is still unknown. Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-k...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Takashiba S,Van Dyke TE,Shapira L,Amar S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8 T cells are effective mediators of specific immunity to infection by Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterial pathogen that initially infects macrophages in the spleen and liver and subsequently spreads to hepatocytes and unidentified parenchymal cells in the spleen. To identify the in vivo target cells of L. monocytog...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Harty JT,Bevan MJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the roles of the infectious agent and the host in the pathogensis of Salmonella-associated arthritis (SAA), 1O(3) to 10(6) heat-killed Salmonella enteritidis were injected directly into involved carpal joints in normal and actively immunized rats and in hosts adoptively immunized by the intravenous transfe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Volkman A,Collins FM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serological tests used in current brucellosis eradication schemes, such as bacterial tube agglutination, do not readily distinguish between infected animals and those immunized with strain 19 or 45/20 Brucella abortus vaccines. In this study, sera from naturally infected cattle were used to identify serologically impo...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Raybould TJ,Chantler S

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the carrier nature of lipopolysaccharide from Brucella abortus (LPS-BA) in evoking humoral responses, normal and immunodeficient mice were immunized with trinitrophenyl (TNP)-conjugated LPS-BA (TNP-LPS-BA) and the responses were compared with those to known T-dependent and T-independent antigens....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Betts M,Beining P,Brunswick M,Inman J,Angus RD,Hoffman T,Golding B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide whose sequence was derived from the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium knowlesi coupled to bovine gamma globulin has been shown to be immunogenic when administered with Freund complete adjuvant. The present experiments were designed to test the immunogenicity of the peptide when attached to a t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Clough ER,Audibert FM,Barnwell JW,Schlesinger DH,Arnon R,Chedid LA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 34-kilodalton (kDa) antigen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum) is a pathogen-specific integral membrane protein. DNA sequence analysis of the cloned gene revealed an open reading frame encoding a primary product of 204 residues with a molecular mass of 22,087 daltons. Sequences that correspond to ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Swancutt MA,Riley BS,Radolf JD,Norgard MV

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoprotective activity of Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 cell surface preparations and purified capsular polysaccharide was tested in mice. The 50% protective dose (PD50), expressed as capsular polysaccharide content, was 2 ng for cell surface preparations and 50 ng for purified capsular polysaccharide. Both preparat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Robert A,Jouin H,Fournier JM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes food and waterborne enteric infections that can result in hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. Intimate adherence of the bacteria to intestinal epithelial cells is mediated by intimin, but E. coli O157:H7 also possess several other putative adhesins, inclu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Lloyd SJ,Ritchie JM,Rojas-Lopez M,Blumentritt CA,Popov VL,Greenwich JL,Waldor MK,Torres AG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proposed that binding of oral streptococci to saliva-coated hydroxylapatite (SHA) surfaces is a multifactorial process involving both specific and nonspecific receptors. In this context, specific binding is described as a high-affinity, saturable interaction between the cell and binding surface. Conversely, nons...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Staat RH,Peyton JC

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to approximate and adhere to mucosal epithelial cells, Candida must traverse the overlying mucus layer. Interactions of Candida species with mucin and human buccal epithelial cells (BECs) were thus investigated in vitro. Binding of the Candida species to purified small intestinal mucin showed a close correlat...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Repentigny L,Aumont F,Bernard K,Belhumeur P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to the capsular polysaccharide of Cryptococcus neoformans produce distinct capsular reactions and have biological activities that are determined by serotype specificity. In the present study, polyclonal rabbit anticapsular antibodies were cross-absorbed to produce serotype specificities similar t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： MacGill TC,MacGill RS,Kozel TR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cord factor (trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate[TDM] ), a mixture of 6,6'-diesters of alpha, alpha-D-trehalose with natural mycolic acids, has been described as having immunoregulatory and antitumor activities in vivo, although the relevant mechanisms of action remain unelucidated. In this work, we measured the effects of TDM ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kierszenbaum F,Zenian A,Wirth JJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Leptospira spp. are likely to encounter higher concentrations of reactive oxygen species induced by the host innate immune response. In this study, we characterized Leptospira interrogans catalase (KatE), the only annotated catalase found within pathogenic Leptospira species, by assessing its role in resist...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Eshghi A,Lourdault K,Murray GL,Bartpho T,Sermswan RW,Picardeau M,Adler B,Snarr B,Zuerner RL,Cameron CE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages phagocytized and digested Trypanosoma brucei in vitro and in vivo, but in the absence of specific antiserum and complement the degree of phagocytosis was minimal. Ultrastructurally, the parasites attached to the macrophage by their flagella, and ingestion proceeded fl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Stevens DR,Moulton JE

更新日期：1978-03-01 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：:Two distinct and complementary pathways, one mediated by perforin and the other dependent upon CD95 (Fas), effect cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We examined the relative roles of these pathways in host defenses against the intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes by using murine listeriosis as a model syst...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jensen ER,Glass AA,Clark WR,Wing EJ,Miller JF,Gregory SH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent stimulus of cells, yet a target protein for LPS has not been defined. We used two approaches to define LPS-binding sites on cell surfaces: one assay measured binding of LPS-coated erythrocytes (ELPS) to cultured human cells, and a second measured binding of a radiolabeled...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Golenbock DT,Hampton RY,Raetz CR,Wright SD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various features of salmonellosis were examined in a burned-mouse model. In this model, which uses an outbred mouse strain, a challenge dose of ca. 100 CFU with any of several strains of Salmonella typhimurium caused a fatal infection. A variety of mutated strains attenuated for virulence in Salmonella-susceptible par...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carsiotis M,Stocker BA,Holder IA

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experimentation has highlighted a number of difficulties in the development of carrier-based bivalent vaccines (J.-F. Viret and D. Favre, Biologicals 22:361-372, 1994) In an attempt to obviate these carrier strains. Toward this aim, a series of defined rfbInaba deletion (delta rfbInaba) mutants of the cholera...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Favre D,Cryz SJ Jr,Viret JF

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00