Immunoglobulin G subclass restriction of antibodies against hepatitis B surface antigen.

abstract：:The complement-fixing (CF) activity of antigens from cultured Burkitt lymphoma cells was determined by using normal American sera as the source of antibody. Approximately 75% of the sera fixed complement with the positive cell lines. These lines contained the herpes-like virus detectable by electron microscopy. The co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： McCormick KJ,Stenback WA,Mumford DM,Trentin JJ

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase (P. aeruginosa E) and of human leukocyte elastase on human airway lysozyme (HAL) were investigated. P. aeruginosa E inactivated and cleaved HAL, whereas human leukocyte elastase had no effect. Total inactivation of HAL by P. aeruginosa E was observed after 120 mi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Jacquot J,Tournier JM,Puchelle E

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1984, it has been known that spotted fever group rickettsiosis exists in Japan. We isolated three strains of the causative rickettsiae, designated Katayama, Misaka, and Abe, from patients with the disease and studied the characteristics of the isolates. Nude mice and cyclophosphamide-treated mice died after infe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Okada T,Tange Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral inoculation of calves and steers with 10(10) CFU of Escherichia coli O157:H7 induced prompt and sustained increases in serum antibodies to O157 lipopolysaccharide. Neutralizing antibodies to verotoxin 1 also increased rapidly in most steers but more gradually in calves. None of the animals developed neutralizing ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Johnson RP,Cray WC Jr,Johnson ST

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the Shigella flexneri chromosomal aerobactin genes during growth of the bacterium within tissue culture cells was assayed. During intracellular growth, aerobactin promoter activity was repressed relative to the level observed in bacteria grown extracellularly, even when the bacteria had been starved ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Headley V,Hong M,Galko M,Payne SM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucella abortus is recognized by several Toll-like receptor (TLR)-associated pathways triggering proinflammatory responses that affect both the nature and intensity of the immune response. Previously, we demonstrated that B. abortus-mediated dendritic cell (DC) maturation and control of infection are dependent on the...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： de Almeida LA,Macedo GC,Marinho FA,Gomes MT,Corsetti PP,Silva AM,Cassataro J,Giambartolomei GH,Oliveira SC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that serum from chronically infected patients with cystic fibrosis inhibits the phagocytosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by both normal and cystic fibrosis alveolar macrophages. In the present study, the ability of peripheral monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes from normal volunteers ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Thomassen MJ,Demko CA,Wood RE,Sherman JM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of which component of lipopolysaccharide, the lipid or the polysaccharide, is mitogenic for mouse B-lymphocytes has been performed. A purified glycolipid derived from a rough mutant of Salmonella minnesota (R595) that does not contain any o-polysaccharide at all is more mitogenic than an intact lipopolysac...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rosenstreich DL,Nowotny A,Chused T,Mergenhagen SE

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is able to penetrate human monocytes by either passive uptake during phagocytosis or active penetration. It is expected that immunoglobulin G (IgG) opsonization will target the parasite to macrophage Fc gamma receptors for phagocytic processing and subsequent degradation....

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fadul CE,Channon JY,Kasper LH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inoculation of neonatal CD-1 mice by multiple routes with an amyocarditic temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant (ts 1) derived from a myocarditic parent variant of coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3(m)) resulted in approximately half of the neonates surviving to adolescence. Challenge of the ts 1 survivors with CVB3(m) did not induc...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Gauntt CJ,Paque RE,Trousdale MD,Gudvangen RJ,Barr DT,Lipotich GJ,Nealon TJ,Duffey PS

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative organisms incorporate hydroxy fatty acids into the lipid A moiety of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and in the case of some members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, hydroxy fatty acids are incorporated exclusively into lipid A. However, a limited number of Bacteroides species have been shown to incorporate s...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nichols FC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is one of the most important pathogens affecting the swine industry and is also an emerging zoonotic agent for humans. Two-component signaling systems (TCSs) play important roles in the adaptation of pathogenic bacteria to host environments. In this study, we identified a novel TCS, named TCS09HKRR,...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Zhong X,Zhang Y,Zhu Y,Dong W,Ma J,Pan Z,Yao H

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenicities of Mycobacterium bovis strain BCG and an isoniazid (INH) - resistant mutant were compared. Sonic extracts of heat-killed, washed bacteria were injected into rabbits, and antisera were produced (anti-BCG and anti-BCG-R). The sonic extracts were also subjected to ultracentrifugation, and test antigens...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Minden P,McClatchy JK,Bardana EJ,Farr RS

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of a gonococcal infection involves attachment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the plasma membrane of an epithelial cell in the mucosal epithelium and its internalization, transepithelial trafficking, and exocytosis from the basal membrane. Piliation and expression of certain Opa proteins and the immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Hopper S,Wilbur JS,Vasquez BL,Larson J,Clary S,Mehr IJ,Seifert HS,So M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, is a zoonotic pathogen that survives in nutrient-limited environments within a tick, prior to transmission to its mammalian host. Survival under these prolonged nutrient-limited conditions is thought to be similar to survival during stationary phase, which i...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Fazzino L,Tilly K,Dulebohn DP,Rosa PA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work suggests that one mechanism through which connective tissue breakdown might occur in periodontal diseases is the production of metalloproteinases, including collagenase, by gingival fibroblasts. In this study we investigated whether highly purified preparations of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and lipotei...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Heath JK,Atkinson SJ,Hembry RM,Reynolds JJ,Meikle MC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for outer membrane protein P2 of four nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains were cloned and sequenced. The derived amino acid sequences were compared with the outer membrane protein P2 sequence from H. influenzae type b MinnA and the sequences of P2 from three additional nontypeable H. influenzae strain...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Bell J,Grass S,Jeanteur D,Munson RS Jr

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunogenicity of the two major group 19 pneumococcal polysaccharides, types 19F and 19A, was studied in human volunteers. Antibody responses after vaccination with either 50 micrograms of type 19F polysaccharide, 50 micrograms of type 19A polysaccharide, or 25 micrograms of both polysaccharides premixed in a sing...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Penn RL,Lewin EB,Douglas RG Jr,Schiffman G,Lee CJ,Robbins JB

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:Experimental Helicobacter pylori infection was studied in Mongolian gerbils with fresh human isolates that carry or do not carry cagA (cagA-positive or cagA-negative, respectively), multiply passaged laboratory strains, wild-type strain G1.1, or isogenic ureA, cagA, or vacA mutants of G1.1. Animals were sacrificed 1 t...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wirth HP,Beins MH,Yang M,Tham KT,Blaser MJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct types of granulomas were produced in the draining lymph nodes by immunizing guinea pigs with Mycobacterium bovis BCG or Mycobacterium leprae, as reported earlier (Narayanan et al., J. Pathol. 134:253-265, 1981). In the BCG-induced granuloma there is successful containment, killing, and degradation of the ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mathew RC,Katayama I,Gupta SK,Curtis J,Turk JL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis contains multiple reports which suggest that loss of cell-mediated immunity in this disease may be related in part to the presence of an inhibitory factor(s) present in patient plasma. One such inhibitory factor has been suggested to be mannan polysaccharide released...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nelson RD,Herron MJ,McCormack RT,Gehrz RC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase radioimmunoassay, applying whole Mycobacterium leprae as antigen and radiolabeled protein A from Staphylococcus aureus as antibody-detecting reagent, was used for the determination of specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibody responses in leprosy patients. High IgG anti-M. leprae antibody levels w...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Touw J,Langendijk EM,Stoner GL,Belehu A

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:Phytohemagglutinin is able to trigger interferon synthesis in spleen cell cultures from nude (nu/nu) mice as effectively as in splenic cell cultures from haired, control (nu/+), thymus-bearing mice. A minor theta-bearing cell population present in the spleen of nude mice appears essential to phytohemagglutinin interfe...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Wietzerbin J,Stefanos S,Falcoff R,Lucero M,Catinot L,Falcoff E

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a cryptococcal culture filtrate antigen referred to as CneF with chemically defined cryptococcal antigen fractions isolated by Cherniak and co-workers by using double immunodiffusion gels, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblots, and footpad reactivity of immunized mice. The three previously descri...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Murphy JW,Mosley RL,Cherniak R,Reyes GH,Kozel TR,Reiss E

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitration of protein A with tetranitromethane incompletely blocks its Fc-binding ability for immunoglobulin G when measured by more sensitive methods of immunoprecipitation and when tested in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In addition, binding of protein A and blockage by nitration is heterogeneous and depends...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Sloan GJ,Butler JE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calprotectin, an S100 calcium-binding protein with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity in vitro, is expressed in neutrophils, monocytes, and gingival keratinocytes. In periodontitis, calprotectin appears upregulated and is detected at higher levels in gingival crevicular fluid and tissue specimens. How calprotectin ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nisapakultorn K,Ross KF,Herzberg MC

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherence of 58 nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates obtained from patients with otitis media or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obtained from the throats of healthy individuals to Chang and NCI-H292 epithelial cells was compared. Otitis media isolates, but not COPD isolates, adhered signif...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： van Schilfgaarde M,van Ulsen P,Eijk P,Brand M,Stam M,Kouame J,van Alphen L,Dankert J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mycobacterium tuberculosis exported repetitive protein (Erp) is a virulence determinant required for growth in cultured macrophages and in vivo. To better understand the role of Erp in Mycobacterium pathogenesis, we generated a mutation in the erp homologue of Mycobacterium marinum, a close genetic relative of M. ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cosma CL,Klein K,Kim R,Beery D,Ramakrishnan L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00