Detection of human cytomegalovirus DNA in breast milk by means of polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：:Five groups of 32 chemicals were examined regarding their immunological functions as modifier inactivants to make inactivated Sendai nasal vaccine using a contact exposure experiment, direct immunofluorescent method, and serum HI titer. (1) Five of the nine reactive groups of reactive dyes (2-chloropyridine, 2, 4, 6-t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miyamae T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) an arthropod-borne Alphavirus is responsible for chikungunya fever and joint pain etc. Arthralgia is a major symptom; some patients recover early while others suffer for a very long time. Epidemiology and molecular characterization of three whole-genome sequences of CHIKV have been carried ou...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Khan N,Bhat R,Jain V,Raghuvendara B S,Patel AK,Ray P

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal intraepithelial T cells (IELs) expressing either gammadelta TCR or alphabeta TCR have been proposed to play an important role in the regulation of intestinal epithelia by producing cytokines that directly influence the adjoining intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) functions. To illuminate this issue, we utiliz...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohyama M,Hachimura S,Nanno M,Ishikawa H,Kaminogawa S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on an O-antigenic polysaccharide moiety derived from Porphyromonas circumdentaria NCTC 12469, a reference strain of Porphyromonas species. The polysaccharide chain was composed of D-glucose, D-galactose, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine in a molar ratio of 1:2:1:...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuo K,Isogai E,Araki Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse monoclonal antibody, LP4D3, was raised against purified Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen leader protein (EBNA-LP) fused to glutathione-S-transferase. The antibody detected endogenous and exogenous EBNA-LP in immunoblotting, immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation assays, and the epitope of the antibody wa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shaku F,Matsuda G,Furuya R,Kamagata C,Igarashi M,Tanaka M,Kanamori M,Nishiyama Y,Yamamoto N,Kawaguchi Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammasome is a multiprotein complex that mediates caspase-1 activation with subsequent maturation of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. The NLRP3 inflammasome is known to be activated by Staphylococcus aureus, one of the leading causes of bacteremia worldwide. Inflammasome activation and regulation ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Rasmussen G,Idosa BA,Bäckman A,Monecke S,Strålin K,Särndahl E,Söderquist B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens KZ1340, previously classified as Clostridium plagarum, is an isolate from Antarctic soil, and was identified as an alpha-, theta-, and kappa-toxin non-producing variant. On Southern hybridization, the variant was found to be defective in the pfoA (theta-toxin) gene, but the plc (alpha-toxin) an...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu T,Ohtani K,Ba-Thein W,Inui S,Nakamura S,Hayashi H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is an anaphylatoxin-inactivating enzyme generated by proteolytic cleavage of its zymogen, and is the same enzyme as that first designated by our group as procarboxypeptidase R (proCPR). TAFI in plasma is presumed to influence vascular disease in its role as a fibrinol...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Akatsu H,Ishiguro M,Ogawa N,Kanesaka T,Okada N,Yamamoto T,Campbell W,Okada H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-seated trichosporonosis caused by Trichosporon asahii has a high mortality rate and a very poor prognosis. New species-specific oligonucleotide primers for T. asahii were developed from a sequence analysis of rRNA genes that included the internal transcribed spacer regions. A nested PCR assay with specific primer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sugita T,Nakajima M,Ikeda R,Niki Y,Matsushima T,Shinoda T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is necessary for the conversion of Vibrio cholerae hemolysin (VCH) monomers into oligomers in liposome membranes. Using different sterols, we determined the stereochemical structures of the VCH-binding active groups present in cholesterol. The VCH monomers are bound to cholesterol, diosgenin, campesterol, ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ikigai H,Otsuru H,Yamamoto K,Shimamura T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of feces and vomit collected from patients during 13 non-bacterial gastroenteritis outbreaks which occurred in Hokkaido between 1995 and 1998 were examined by electron microscopy (EM) and reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for evidence of infection with human caliciviruses (HuCVs). In 6 f...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohyama T,Yoshizumi S,Sawada H,Uchiyama Y,Katoh Y,Hamaoka N,Utagawa E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of a water-soluble peptidoglycan fragment derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis (SEPS) were examined as to their role in proliferation of spleen mononuclear cells (SMNC) from various strains of mice, the production of cytokines in vitro, and the induction of an inflammatory reaction in vivo. The proli...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Onta T,Sashida M,Fujii N,Sugawara S,Rikiishi H,Kumagai K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Importance of the overexpression of AcrAB efflux pumps in the low-level resistance of pathogens to antimicrobials requires a better understanding of the AcrAB regulation. The goal of the present research was to study the transcription of acrAB, as well as the genes that play a role in its regulation in Salmonella ente...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hartog E,Ben-Shalom L,Shachar D,Matthews KR,Yaron S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IFN-induced double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated protein kinase PKR is one of the key molecules in the antiviral effects of IFN. To clarify the effects of hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) on antiviral activity of IFN, in particular on PKR kinase activity, in mammalian cells, we established induci...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Noguchi T,Satoh S,Noshi T,Hatada E,Fukuda R,Kawai A,Ikeda S,Hijikata M,Shimotohno K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of added maltose on the activities of a preparation of crude glucosyltransferases (GTases) and purified dextransucrase (DS) were investigated to elucidate the inhibition mechanism of maltose on the synthesis of water-insoluble glucan (ISG) in Streptococcus mutans HS-6. Tri- and tetra-saccharides produced b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fukui K,Moriyama T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrads-forming mutant MT cells of Micrococcus luteus, both treated with chemical reagents and non-treated, were observed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The agglutinability of the cells with antiserum containing anti-teichuronic acid antibody was examined. The binding of protein A-gold particles to the cel...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Monodane T,Tokunaga M,Torii M

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:RobA is a member of the XylS/AraC subfamily of DNA binding proteins, and when overexpressed, it induces multiple antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli. In this study, we introduced a multicopy robA plasmid (pMEP1) and its derivative into OmpF mutants and an AcrAB-deficient mutant. We found that a decrease in susce...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka T,Horii T,Shibayama K,Sato K,Ohsuka S,Arakawa Y,Yamaki K,Takagi K,Ohta M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for protein Arp4, an IgA receptor protein derived from Streptococcus pyogenes AP4, was expressed in Escherichia coli. The product was demonstrated to be accumulated in a periplasmic space as a polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 40 kDa with the deleted C-terminal membrane anchor portion of protein ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nakatani T,Higuchi A,Noguchi H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-linking of surface receptors in hematopoietic cells results in the enrichment of these receptors in the rafts along with other downstream signaling molecules. A possible explanation how signal is transduced through the plasma membrane has arisen from the concept of raft. From the study of cellular responses in t...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Katagiri YU,Kiyokawa N,Fujimoto J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An R-form lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted from Klebsiella strain LEN-111 (O3-:K1-) by the phenol-chloroform-petroleum ether method was compared with that extracted by the phenol-water method in the ability to form a hexagonal assembly. The LPS which was extracted by the phenol-water method and dialyzed against tap ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kato N,Ohta M,Kido N,Ito H,Naito S,Kuno T

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:We previously reported a helper T-cell (Th) epitope (peptide i) which corresponded to the sequence ranging from positions 462 to 479 from the N-terminus of the Friend-murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV) envelope protein (env462-479). Homologous sequences exist in both Moloney-murine leukemia (M-MuLV env452-469) and endogen...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uenishi H,Iwanami N,Yamagishi H,Nakatani T,Kawasaki T,Tamamura H,Fujii N,Kuribayashi K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) expression is observed in embryonic tissues and, the expression of this protein is absent in normal adult tissues. The re-elevation of serum AFP strongly suggests generation of a malignant tumor in an adult. We demonstrated here that AFP-producing gastric cancer (AFP-gastric cancer) could be tr...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Miura Y,Kataoka H,Joh T,Tada T,Asai K,Nakanishi M,Okada N,Okada H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) in a collection of S. pseudintermedius strains isolated from dogs and cats with dermatitis in Japan and to compare their genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. Clonal relationships were determined by pu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Bardiau M,Yamazaki K,Ote I,Misawa N,Mainil JG

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VacA, a secretory product of Helicobacter pylori, binds to its cell surface receptor, receptor tyrosine phosphatase (RPTP) beta, leading to cytoplasmic vacuolization of gastric epithelial AZ-521 cells. VacA binding to the cell surface and VacA-dependent vacuolization were inhibited by cell culture media containing fet...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura T,Wada A,Nakayama M,Ogushi K,Nishi Y,De Guzman BB,Moss J,Hirayama T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with typhoid fever presenting to the Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital during the period 1975-1998 were retrospectively investigated. All cases were diagnosed by a positive culture for Salmonella typhi in either of their clinical specimens. Of the total number of 130 patients, 57% contracted the disease ab...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hoshino Y,Masuda G,Negishi M,Ajisawa A,Imamura A,Hachimori K,Takayama N,Yamaguchi T,Kimura M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis infection induces formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in vitro; however, the contribution of NETs-mediated killing to the pathogenesis of S. suis in vivo is yet to be elicited. The findings of the present study indicated that extracellular DNA fiber can be induced in a murine model in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhao J,Lin L,Fu L,Han L,Zhang A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated sex- and age-specific prevalences of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and antibody to HBeAg (anti-HBe) in 1,163 carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in Okinawa, Japan, and followed them up for longer than one year in correlation with liver function abnormalities. Elevated serum transaminase lev...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hayashi J,Kashiwagi S,Ikematsu H,Nomura H,Kajiyama W,Noguchi A,Ikeda K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses in Indonesia, epidemiology information on seasonal human influenza is lacking. The present authors, therefore, conducted virologic surveillance in Surabaya, East Java from October 2008 to March 2010. Influenza viruses, including pandemic (H1N1) ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamaoka M,Palilingan JF,Wibisono J,Yudhawati R,Nidom RV,Alamudi MY,Ginting TE,Makino A,Nidom CA,Shinya K,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00