Cryoglobulins, circulating immune complexes, and complement activation in cerebral malaria.

abstract：:The immune response of humans and mice to temperature-specific, plasmid- or chromosome-encoded proteins of yersinia pestis and Yersinia enterocolitica was investigated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting. Extracts from Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica strains with and witho...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mazza G,Karu AE,Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lungs of mice vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG, there was an accumulation of CD4 cells expressing the activated effector phenotype CD44hi CD62 ligandlo) (CD62Llo) which were capable of secreting gamma interferon. Upon cell transfer, however, cells expressing a resting/naïve phenotype (CD44lo CD62Lhi) wer...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kipnis A,Irwin S,Izzo AA,Basaraba RJ,Orme IM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor specificities of four Escherichia coli cloned hemagglutinins, AFA-I, AFA-III, F1845 fimbriae, and the Dr hemagglutinin were studied. Evidence is provided that all four hemagglutinins recognize as their receptor the Dr blood group antigen. However, results of experiments using enzyme-treated erythrocytes a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Nowicki B,Labigne A,Moseley S,Hull R,Hull S,Moulds J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear leukocytes from 46 adults (age 18 to 35), 19 adults (age 70 to 91), 10 children (age 1 to 3), and 22 neonates (cord blood samples) were tested for their chemiluminescence response to opsonized zymosan. Results indicated that both cord blood leukocytes and those from individuals over 70 were significa...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Van Epps DE,Goodwin JS,Murphy S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant cultures that lacked the ability to produce filamentous hemagglutinin were obtained by UV irradiation of Bordetella pertussis strain 18-323. Various biological activities of these mutants were compared with those of the parent culture. It was found that the leukocytosis-promoting, histamine-sensitizing, and mou...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Watanabe M,Nakase Y

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterotoxin of Shigella dysenteriae I produces fluid and electrolyte secretion in the rabbit ileum. These present studies were designed to evaluate nonelectrolyte transport in rabbit ileal mucosa exposed to Shigella enterotoxin. Both 10 mM galactose and 5 mM L-alanine absorptions were significantly impaired in ent...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Binder HJ,Whiting DS

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation we studied the nature of a Shigella flexneri O antigen, the type III antigen. No structural entity has yet been attributed to this antigen. Phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from all S. flexneri serotypes possessing either group 6 antigen or both type III antigen and group ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Carlin NI,Wehler T,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli 536 (O6:K15:H31), which was isolated from a case of urinary tract infection, determines high nephropathogenicity in a rat pyelonephritis system as measured by renal bacterial counts 7 days after infection. The loss of S fimbrial adhesin formation (Sfa-) (mannose-resistant hemagglutination [Mrh-] and f...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Marre R,Hacker J,Henkel W,Goebel W

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine respiratory infection model was used to study the mechanism of protective immunity to Bordetella pertussis. We found that nude mice, which are deficient in T cells, developed a persistent infection and failed to clear the bacteria after aerosol inoculation. In contrast, normal adult nonimmune mice cleared a r...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Mills KH,Barnard A,Watkins J,Redhead K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian host response to infection includes the production and secretion of antimicrobial peptides from phagocytes and epithelial cells. Protegrins, a group of broadly microbicidal peptides isolated originally from porcine neutrophil lysates, were found to be stored as inactive proforms in porcine neutrophil gra...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Shi J,Ganz T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encapsulated cells of Cryptococcus neoformans are potent activators of the alternative complement pathway. Previous studies found that monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the major capsular polysaccharide, termed glucuronoxylomannan (GXM), can markedly suppress the ability of the capsule to accumulate C3 from no...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kozel TR,MacGill RS,Wall KK

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi is the causative agent of strangles, the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses worldwide. The disease is characterized by abscessation and swelling of the lymph nodes of the head and neck, which can literally strangle the horse to death. S. equi produces four recently acquired phage...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Paillot R,Robinson C,Steward K,Wright N,Jourdan T,Butcher N,Heather Z,Waller AS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of HeLa 229 cells in monolayer culture with trachoma (B/TW-5/OT) and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) (L2/434/Bu) organism was studied in terms of two parameters: radioactivity counts of cell-associated tritium labeled organisms at the initial stage of inoculation for measurement of attachment, and inclusi...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Kuo CC,Grayston T

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic and functional changes of glycolipid presented by CD1d(glycolipid/CD1d) specific Valpha14+ T cells in the liver of mice at early stages of bacterial infection were investigated. After Listeria monocytogenes infection or interleukin-12 (IL-12) treatment, alpha-galactosylceramide/CD1d tetramer-reactive (a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Emoto M,Yoshizawa I,Emoto Y,Miamoto M,Hurwitz R,Kaufmann SH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific proteolytic destruction of the human chemotaxin, C5a, is a property of group A and B streptococcal pathogens. Here we show that virulent group G streptococci from human sources also express C5a peptidase activity. The enzyme responsible for this activity is approximately the same size as and is antigenically ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cleary PP,Peterson J,Chen C,Nelson C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Heart Association supports an association between periodontal diseases and atherosclerosis but not a causal association. This study explores the use of the integrin β6(-/-) mouse model to study the causality. We investigated the ability of a polymicrobial consortium of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Velsko IM,Chukkapalli SS,Rivera-Kweh MF,Zheng D,Aukhil I,Lucas AR,Larjava H,Kesavalu L

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, with phagocytic cells induces the activation of NF-kappaB and the expression of proinflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). B. burgdorferi-induced TNF-alpha production is also dependent on the activation ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Olson CM,Hedrick MN,Izadi H,Bates TC,Olivera ER,Anguita J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nasal vaccine, consisting of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) from group B Neisseria meningitidis, was given to 12 volunteers in the form of nose drops or nasal spray four times at weekly intervals, with a fifth dose 5 months later. Each nasal dose consisted of 250 microg of protein, equivalent to 10 times the intramu...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Haneberg B,Dalseg R,Wedege E,Høiby EA,Haugen IL,Oftung F,Andersen SR,Naess LM,Aase A,Michaelsen TE,Holst J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the leukotoxin of Pasteurella haemolytica on the generation of arachidonic acid metabolites by bovine polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) was investigated. PMNs released 5-, 12-, and 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (5-, 12-, and 15-HETE) and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) upon stimulation with arachidonic aci...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Henricks PA,Binkhorst GJ,Drijver AA,Nijkamp FP

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counts of acid-fast bacilli were made on homogenates of whole liver, whole spleen, and two femurs of CBA mice killed at various time intervals after intravenous infection with Mycobacterium lepraemurium. The growth curves so obtained showed that the bacillus multiplied faster in bone marrow than in liver or spleen. No...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Brown IN,Krenzien HN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a critical role in early immune recognition of Aspergillus, which can regulate host defense during invasive pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA). However, the role of TLR7 in the pathogenesis of IPA remains unknown. In this study, an in vivo model of IPA was established to investigate the cont...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Xu B,Luo Q,Gong Y,Li J,Cao J

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mycobacterial growth inhibitory factor (MycoIF) to trypsin, chymotrypsin, or neuraminidase decrease its ability to produce intracellular inhibition of mycobacterial growth within macrophages, suggesting that MycoIF was a glycoprotein. MycoIF was unaffected by deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease. Supernatant ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Cahall DL,Youmans GP

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NikR protein is a nickel-dependent regulatory protein which is a member of the ribbon-helix-helix family of transcriptional regulators. The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori expresses a NikR ortholog, which was previously shown to mediate regulation of metal metabolism and urease expression, but the mechanism g...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Ernst FD,Kuipers EJ,Heijens A,Sarwari R,Stoof J,Penn CW,Kusters JG,van Vliet AH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these experiments was to study the early response of mouse foot pads to Mycobacterium leprae. To accomplish this, mice were inoculated in both foot pads with large and small numbers of organisms. The animals were sacrificed at intervals from 2 hr to 27 days after inoculation. The microscopical results, ...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Evans MJ,Newton HE,Levy L

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotype-specific polysaccharide of Streptococcus mutans AHT (serotype a) was shown to be loosely associated with the cell surface of this organism. The antigen was extracted from whole cells by boiling in sodium acetate buffer, pH 4.0, for 10 min. The purified product was found to be a diheteroglycan of galactose...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Craig RA,Riege DH,Bleiweis AS

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga-like toxins (SLTs), which are produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli, are composed of enzymatically active A and B subunit multimers responsible for the toxin's binding. We have previously purified large amounts of the SLT-I B subunit by using a hyperexpression vector in Vibrio cholerae under the contro...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acheson DW,De Breucker SA,Jacewicz M,Lincicome LL,Donohue-Rolfe A,Kane AV,Keusch GT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine mastitis continues to be the most detrimental factor for profitable dairying. Recent research conducted within our laboratory has identified a genetic marker in the CXCR2 gene associated with mastitis susceptibility. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the migratory ability of neutrophils from co...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Rambeaud M,Pighetti GM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonellae with differences only in the O-antigenic polysaccharide of their lipopolysaccharide were previously shown to differentially activate complement via the alternative pathway, causing them to be ingested at different rates by the mouse macrophage-like cell line J774. We now show that this mechanism could expl...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Liang-Takasaki CJ,Saxén H,Mäkelä PH,Leive L

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of choriogonadotropin- and alpha-subunit-like materials in two species of bacteria identified as Staphylococcus simulans and Streptococcus faecalis have been demonstrated by the indirect fluorescein-labeled and the indirect peroxidase-labeled immunocytochemical techniques, utilizing antiserum for human ch...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Acevedo HF,Koide SS,Slifkin M,Maruo T,Campbell-Acevedo EA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-colony variants (SCVs) are slow-growing variants of human bacterial pathogens. They are associated with chronic persistent infections, and their biochemical identification and antimicrobial treatment are impaired by altered metabolic properties. To contribute to the understanding of SCV-mediated infections, we a...

journal_title：Infection and immunity

authors： Roggenkamp A,Hoffmann H,Hornef MW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00