Mitogenic activity of a water-soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA) obtained from Bacterionema matruchotii. IV. Synergistic effects of Bu-WSA on Concanavalin A-induced proliferative response of human peripheral blood lymphocytes.

abstract：:BALB/c mice were immunized intraperitoneally with the food antigen ovalbumin (OVA) while they were fed with Lactobacillus GG heated killed cell preparation. The oral administration of Lactobacillus GG did not appear to modify the antigen-augmented serum IgE in the tested mice but significantly augmented serum OVA spec...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： He F,Morita H,Kubota A,Ouwehand AC,Hosoda M,Hiramatsu M,Kurisaki J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 5 (IL-5), a lymphokine produced by helper T cells, is involved in the regulation of growth and differentiation of B cells and other hematopoietic cells. To elucidate IL-5-mediated intracellular mechanisms, we have established IL-5-dependent and -independent murine early B cell lines, J6 and MJ88-1, respect...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Migita M,Yamaguchi N,Katoh S,Mita S,Matsumoto R,Sonoda E,Tsuchiya H,Matsuda I,Tominaga A,Takatsu K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the gene encoding the major neutralization glycoprotein (VP7) was performed on sixteen human isolates of serotype 2 of rotavirus in Japan, China, and Pakistan and their genetic variations were examined. Comparative studies of their nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences between the sixteen is...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Wen L,Ushijima H,Kakizawa J,Fang ZY,Nishio O,Morikawa S,Motohiro T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed the effects of a chinese herb medicine Sho-saiko-to on the lethal and antitumor activities of recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (rhTNF) administered in mice. Sho-saiko-to was noted to protect the rhTNF-induced lethality in galactosamine-hypersensitized mice, and also Sho-saiko-to pretreated mice was ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Tutumi E,Yokota K,Furusawa S,Sasaki K,Takayanagi Y

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of fatty acids on Mycobacterium smegmatis was examined in vitro at pH 5.0 to 7.0 to determine the role of fatty acids in the intracellular killing of mycobacteria. Unsaturated fatty acids showed strong bactericidal activity in low concentrations (0.005 to 0.02 mM), whereas saturated fatty acids, except for ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanetsuna F

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the causative agent of botulism in humans and animals. Only BoNT serotype A subtype 1 (BoNT/A1) is used clinically because of its high potency and long duration of action. BoNT/A1 and BoNT/A subtype 2 (BoNT/A2) have a high degree of amino acid sequence similarity in the light chain (LC) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohda T,Tsukamoto K,Torii Y,Kozaki S,Mukamoto M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution of indigenous lactobacilli in the gastrointestinal tracts of rats was investigated at the species level. The indigenous lactobacilli isolated from conventional rats were divided into three groups, Lactobacillus acidophilus and its related strains, L. fermentum, and L. murini. Localization of the Lactobaci...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe T,Morotomi M,Suegara N,Kawai Y,Mutai M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coat protein of cardamom mosaic virus (CdMV), a member of the genus Macluravirus, assembles into virus-like particles when expressed in an Escherichia coli expression system. The N and C-termini of the coat protein were engineered with the Kennedy peptide and the 2F5 and 4E10 epitopes of gp41 of HIV. The chimeric ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Damodharan S,Gujar R,Pattabiraman S,Nesakumar M,Hanna LE,Vadakkuppattu RD,Usha R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-insoluble glucan (WIG) produced by mutans streptococci, an important cariogenic pathogen, plays an important role in the formation of dental biofilm and adhesion of biofilm to tooth surfaces. Glucanohydrolases, such as mutanase (α-1,3-glucanase) and dextranase (α-1,6-glucanase), are able to hydrolyze WIG. The pu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Otsuka R,Imai S,Murata T,Nomura Y,Okamoto M,Tsumori H,Kakuta E,Hanada N,Momoi Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus mutants lacking three Na+/H+ antiporters (NhaA, NhaB, NhaD) were constructed. The DeltanhaA strains showed significantly higher sensitivity to LiCl regarding their growth compared to the parental strain. The DeltanhaA and DeltanhaB strains exhibited higher sensitivities to LiCl. The mutant XACa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kuroda T,Mizushima T,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid method to determine the allelic variants of the sheep PrP gene was developed. DNA samples from 128 Suffolk sheep (39 rams and 89 ewes) were screened by using polymerase chain reactions and dot-blot hybridization with 32P-labeled nine allele-specific oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the polymorphic PrP c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ishiguro N,Shinagawa M,Onoe S,Yamanouchi K,Saito T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 55 strains of Clostridium sordellii, 21 lethal toxin-positive and 34 lethal toxin-negative, were tested for cytotoxin production in brain heart infusion medium supplemented with 0.2% Na2HPO4 (m-BHI) and cooked-meat-glucose (CMG) medium using baby hamster kidney (BHK-21/WI-2) cells as indicator cells. The m-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakamura S,Tanabe N,Yamakawa K,Nishida S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the distribution of epithelioid cells, myofibroblasts, and TGF-beta1 in the formation of granuloma caused by Mycobacterium avium intracellulare complex (MAC) lung infection. A retrospective study was performed for 9 cases of positive MAC culture in which lung resections were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fujita J,Ohtsuki Y,Suemitsu I,Yamadori I,Shigeto E,Shiode M,Nishimura K,Hirayama T,Matsushima T,Ishida T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pea cyv1 gene is a yet-to-be-identified recessive resistance gene that inhibits the infection of clover yellow vein virus (ClYVV). Previous studies confirmed that the cell-to-cell movement of ClYVV is inhibited in cyv1-carrying pea plants; however, the effect of cyv1 on viral replication remains unknown. In this s...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Taninaka Y,Nakahara KS,Hagiwara-Komoda Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are opportunistic pathogens implicated with nosocomial infections, and high rates of morbidity and mortality, especially in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). B. cepacia are naturally resistant to different classes of antibiotics, and can subvert the host innate immune responses ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ganesh PS,Vishnupriya S,Vadivelu J,Mariappan V,Vellasamy KM,Shankar EM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EAEC is increasingly recognized as an emerging enteric pathogen. Typical EAEC expressing the AggR regulon have been proven to be an important cause of childhood diarrhea in industrialized countries as well as in the developing world, while atypical EAEC without this regulon have not been thoroughly investigated. To in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tokuda K,Nishi J,Imuta N,Fujiyama R,Kamenosono A,Manago K,Kawano Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline phosphatase-conjugated oligonucleotide probes were developed to detect the gene coding for Vero toxin 1 (VT1) and Vero toxin 2 (VT2). Using these probes, 3 hr was enough to detect VT genes when suspicious colonies of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) were obtained on an agar plate. The results of a h...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoh M,Takagi K,Eda J,Ohtomo M,Takarada Y,Shibata S,Honda T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) in 76 strains of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) varied by a factor of 100. Three ETEC strains that differ in the levels of LT production were chosen for the cloning of LT genes (toxAB) into plasmid pBR322, and the gene structure and expression were compared...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Katayama S,Ninomiya M,Minami J,Okabe A,Hayashi H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In innate immunity, cationic antimicrobial peptides including cathelin-related antimicrobial peptide (CRAMP) are known to play critical roles in protecting the host from infection by invasive microbes, including Gram-positive and -negative bacteria. However, little is known about the interactions between CRAMP and myc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tani K,Shimizu T,Kida Y,Kuwano K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific tumor microenvironment signaling might prevent the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs) with tolerogenic and immunosuppressive potential accounting for antigen-specific unresponsiveness in the lymphoid organs and in the periphery. In the present study, dendritic cells treated with LLC lung cancer cell or 4T1 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ma C,Su M,Shen K,Chen J,Ning Y,Qi C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent otitis media are frequently intractable during childhood. It is unclear whether recurrent otitis media is caused by etiological bacteria colonization or by new infections. Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis were isolated from the nasopharynx of 7 otitisprone and 2 non-...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yokota S,Harimaya A,Sato K,Somekawa Y,Himi T,Fujii N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periapical lesions are induced by bacterial infection of the dental pulp and result in destruction of the surrounding alveolar bone. Although various immunological studies concerning periapical bone resorption have been reported, the role of cytokines in the formation of periapical lesions remains unclear. In this stu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Oseko F,Yamamoto T,Akamatsu Y,Kanamura N,Iwakura Y,Imanishi J,Kita M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl with meningococcal meningitis lacked serum complement activity. The seventh component of complement (C7) could not be detected in her serum by either functional or immunochemical analysis. The levels of the other components were within the normal range. Her serum complement activity was restored by ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyake T,Ohta K,Kawamori J,Hirao T,Akagaki Y,Inai S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial images can be obtained rather easily with an atomic-force microscope (AFM) in the magnification range of 5,000 to 30,000 times without any pretreatment of the specimens for such observations as chemical fixation, dehydration or staining. The bacterial shapes or the presence of flagella can be clearly recogni...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Umeda A,Saito M,Amako K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four T antigen-positive phenotypic revertants were isolated by negative selection with BUdR from SV40-transformed rat and mouse cells which contain six and two viral genome equivalents per cell, respectively. Karyological analysis indicated that one rat and one mouse revertant had a hyperploid number of chromosomes, w...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maruyama K,Furuta T,Ueda K,Oda K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genospecies Borrelia afzelii was isolated from a patient of Lyme disease in Hokkaido, Japan, for the first time, by culturing the minced erythema lesion in BSK II medium. Two analytical methods, rRNA gene restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the specific primer ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakao M,Miyamoto K,Fukunaga M,Hashimoto Y,Takahashi H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is a major antigen involved in the reaction of smooth muscle antibody positive sera from patients with chronic active hepatitis. In the present study, actin extracted from rabbit skeletal muscle was denatured by sodium dodecyl sulfate and was immunized into the rabbit, a homologous animal for actin. The rabbits,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishioka M,Aibiki T,Shirai M,Terada S,Kagawa H,Watanabe S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the three-year period from 1984 to 1987, 506 acute gastroenteritis outbreaks involving 14,383 patients were reported to the Bureau of Public Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Eighty (4,324 patients) of 150 outbreaks (4,860 patients) from which etiologic agents were not identified were subjected to virologi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sekine S,Okada S,Hayashi Y,Ando T,Terayama T,Yabuuchi K,Miki T,Ohashi M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses cause acute gastroenteritis. Since multiple genotypes of norovirus co-circulate in humans, changing the genotype composition and eluding host immunity, development of a polyvalent vaccine against norovirus in which the genotypes of vaccine strains match the major strains in circulation in the target season...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki Y,Doan YH,Kimura H,Shinomiya H,Shirabe K,Katayama K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00