Cell growth and antimicrobial activity of mouse peritoneal macrophages in response to glucocorticoids, choleragen and lipopolysaccharide.

abstract：:We investigated here the kinetics of natural killer (NK) cells and extrathymic T cells, which include intermediate CD3 cells and gamma delta T cells, in the cord factor-induced granulomatous inflammation of the lungs and liver. In Balb/c mice, pulmonary inflammation elevated the proportion of NK cells and that of extr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tabata A,Kaneda K,Watanabe H,Abo T,Yano I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmethylated CpG-ODN are known to enhance Th1-type immune response. However, optimal sequences of CpG-ODN for activating Th1-type immune cells vary among species. It is necessary to identify the effective CpG-ODN sequences in each species. In the present study, in order to identify the sequences of CpG-ODN that produc...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Satoh R,Kotake M,Takano T,Motokawa K,Gemma T,Watanabe R,Arai S,Hohdatsu T

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Lancefield group C Streptococcus dysgalactiae causes infections in farmed fish. Here, the genome of S. dysgalactiae strain kdys0611, isolated from farmed amberjack (Seriola dumerili) was sequenced. The complete genome sequence of kdys0611 consists of a single chromosome and five plasmids. The chromosome is 2,142,780 b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishiki I,Yoshida T,Fujiwara A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that mice infected recurrently with live Fusobacterim nucleatum (Fn) synthesize a significant amount of NO between 12 hr and 24 hr after the Fn injection. We now investigated whether the NO has the capability of killing Fn, a gram-negative rod periodontal pathogen. The mice were divided into thr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kato C,Mikami M,Suzuki A,Saito K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides contribute to innate host defense against a number of bacteria and fungal pathogens. Some of antimicrobial synthetic peptides were systemically administered in vivo; however, effective protection has so far not been obtained because the effective dose of peptides in vivo seems to be very high, o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hamamoto K,Kida Y,Zhang Y,Shimizu T,Kuwano K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JC polyomavirus (JCPyV) causes progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, in immunocompromised patients. Because no drugs have been approved for treating PML, many antiviral agents are currently being investigated for this purpose. The inhibitory effe...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nukuzuma S,Nakamichi K,Kameoka M,Sugiura S,Nukuzuma C,Tasaki T,Takegami T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal toxic shock syndrome-like exanthematous disease (NTED) is a new entity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Most of NTED cases reported previously in the literature were sporadic ones. In the present report, we describe an outbreak of NTED that occurred in a neonatal intensive care...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakano M,Miyazawa H,Kawano Y,Kawagishi M,Torii K,Hasegawa T,Iinuma Y,Ohta M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation treatment enhanced resistance of C57BL/6, but not BALB/c against Toxoplasma gondii infection. Six Gy-irradiated (IR) C57BL/6 recipients of B-2 cells from T. gondii-infected C57BL/6 died after infection. B-2 suppressor cells from infected C57BL/6 enhanced production of IL-4 and IL-10 in peritoneal exudate c...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mun HS,Aosai F,Fang H,Piao LX,Winn T,Norose K,Yano A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1985 to 1990, serum samples were obtained from 229 healthy dogs. The dogs lived in Hokkaido, known to be infested with ticks. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect IgG and IgM antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi HO14 and HP3, which were isolated from Ixodes ovatus and I. persulcatu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Isogai E,Isogai H,Sato N,Yuzawa M,Kawakami M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible presence of Paul-Bunnell (PB) antigen on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed lymphocytes were investigated. Of 23 EBV genome-positive lymphoblastoid cell lines tested all but one absorbed PB type antibody from the serum of an infectious mononucleosis patient. The one EBV-negative B cell line tested did n...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maeda M,Sairenji T,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most influenza vaccines are produced in eggs, new types of vaccines must be developed. In this study, the immunogenicity and safety of a baculovirus-expressed hemagglutinin (HA) of H1N1 influenza virus (Korea/01/2009; designated "HA-Bac-K") was compared with those of a commercially available baculovirus-expre...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Na HN,Kim KH,Song MK,Park HL,Lee EY,Shim SH,Park S,Nam JH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found a halophilic vibrio in B bile from a 75-year-old female patient with chronic cholecystitis, and examined its biochemical characteristics. The organisms are gram-negative short rods or comma shaped, with some ring forms. They have a single polar flagellum, but not capsule. The strains can grow in peptone water...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Konishi K,Yamagishi T,Sakamoto K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interferon-gammas (rHuIFN-gamma s) were obtained from two different mammalian cells (mouse C127 cells and Chinese hamster ovary, CHO, cells) cultured in a microcarrier culture system. Both rHuIFN-gamma s were purified using sequential chromatographies for their comparison of structural properties. Th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sano E,Kamata K,Okano K,Yamazaki S,Iizuka M,Kobayashi S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are important members of the intestinal microbiota and are considered to contribute to maintaining health. However, the level of bifidobacteria colonising the intestine of elderly subjects tends to be lower than in younger adults. Therefore, two Bifidobacterium longum strains, isolated from healthy elde...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mäkeläinen H,Tahvonen R,Salminen S,Ouwehand AC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B. pertussis is a causative agent of whooping cough (pertussis) in humans. Despite wide-scale vaccination in many countries, there is serious concern about pertussis as a re-emerging disease. Re-emergence of pertussis may be explained by several factors: the short duration of protection by the currently available acel...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Abe A,Nagamatsu K,Watanabe M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of hemagglutinin (HA) activity in a membrane fraction of Bacteroides gingivalis was examined using various compounds. Leupeptin and anti-pain inhibited the HA activity at nM order. This potency was lost when the aldehyde group of leupeptin was converted to an alcohol moiety. Irreversible protease inhibitors...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nishikata M,Yoshimura F,Nodasaka Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of interferon for a kind of dairy lactic acid bacteria, Lactobacillus acidophilus (L. acidophilus), was investigated in murine peritoneal macrophage (M phi) cultures. Lactobacillus acidophilus JCM 1034, 1132T, 1229 and 2125 induced IFN (12-34 I.U./ml) in M phi cultures in vitro. Strain 1132T- and 2125-induce...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kitazawa H,Matsumura K,Itoh T,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular localization of the wild-type (Spv+), the phoP-constitutively expressed strain (PhoPc), and the spv-deleted strain (Spv-) of Salmonella typhimurium was examined by the use of confocal laser scanning microscopy analysis of immunostained sections of mouse spleens after oral or subcutaneous inoculation. Onl...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsui H,Eguchi M,Kikuchi Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a convenient method for assaying the receptor-destroying enzyme (RDE) activity of influenza C virus. This method measures the ability of the RDE to destroy the hemagglutination-inhibition activity of a potent inhibitor present in rat serum. Some physico-chemical properties of the RDE of influenza C v...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugawara K,Kitame F,Homma M,Nakamura K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleic acid fraction from cells of 6 species of bacterium and 2 kinds of vertebrate, calf and salmon, was extracted and purified by the same procedures as described previously. When the spleen cells from BALB/c mice were incubated with the nucleic acid fraction from either of the bacteria, natural killer (NK) act...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamamoto S,Yamamoto T,Shimada S,Kuramoto E,Yano O,Kataoka T,Tokunaga T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil specimens obtained from several areas of Japan, which are closely located to or facing the Continental land of China, were examined for the distribution of Clostridium botulinum, especially pertaining to types A and B. A total of 266 specimens of Japan, when cultured, showed no type A or B toxicity, although 30 (...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamakawa K,Kamiya S,Nishida S,Yoshimura K,Yu H,Lu DY,Nakamura S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease was purified from a strain of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from the blood of a septicemic human. The vibrio was cultured in bacto peptone-yeast extract medium, and the protease was purified by a purification procedure including ultrafiltration of the culture supernatant with an Amicon YM 5 membrane, diethylam...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyoshi N,Shimizu C,Miyoshi S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes a novel chemiluminescent assay of bacterial activity. Luminol chemiluminescence (LC) was amplified on addition of menadione to Escherichia coli suspension, and it was effectively inhibited by addition of superoxide dismutase rather than catalase. This fact suggests that H2O2 produced from O2 by sup...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamashoji S,Manome I,Ikedo M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel combination of antimicrobial agents (sulfamethoxazole, 40 μg/mL; trimethoprim, 20 μg/mL; amphotericin B, 5 μg/mL; fosfomycin, 400 μg/mL; and 5-fluorouracil, 100 μg/mL) was developed for selective isolation of leptospires from contaminated samples. The growth of 16 microorganisms considered as possible contamin...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Chakraborty A,Miyahara S,Villanueva SY,Saito M,Gloriani NG,Yoshida S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported a mouse model of severe group A streptococcal infection (Microbiol. Immunol. 45: 777-786, 2001). When we injected Streptococcus pyogenes strains intramuscularly, the mice suffered from acute phase of infection for a few days but recovered from the illness and gained body weight. These mice,...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Iida K,Seki M,Saito M,Kawamura Y,Kajiwara H,Yoshida S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine B cell mitogens such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), butanol-extracted water soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA), dextran sulfate (DS), synthetic muramyl dipeptide (MDP), and its analog MDP-Lys (L18) do not show any mitogenic ability in vitro on human peripheral blood lymphocytes or mixed cell populations of purif...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Konno-Ejiri H,Okumura S,Ozawa A,Nakano M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is commonly associated with complicated UTI and expresses several virulence factors, including MR/P fimbriae. In the present study mice were immunised nasally with MrpA, the structural subunit of MR/P, with or without CT as a mucosal adjuvant. The animals were then challenged with P. mirabilis and in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Scavone P,Rial A,Umpierrez A,Chabalgoity A,Zunino P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to count Clostridium tyrobutyricum spores in milk after membrane filtration, murine 21E7-B12 monoclonal antibody was produced. Elution of the monoclonal antibody from this antigen, the flagellar filament protein, by carbohydrate ligands was used to study the epitope structure. A competitive elution of an anti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bédouet L,Arnold F,Robreau G,Batina P,Talbot F,Malcoste R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic study on serotyping of Enterococcus faecalis has been reported since 1964 when M.E. Sharpe conducted serotyping of group D streptococcus in U.K. So, we attempted to re-evaluate serotyping of E. faecalis. For this purpose, we received 42 Sharpe's strains and first examined for their biochemical characteri...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Maekawa S,Yoshioka M,Kumamoto Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00