Class-specific antibody response in acyclovir-treated and adenine arabinoside-treated patients with primary genital herpes simplex virus infection.

abstract：:IFN gamma production in cultures of spleen cells obtained from mice sensitized with TH69, a live Streptococcus faecalis preparation, was examined to determine how macrophages participate. It was demonstrated that sensitized spleen macrophages participated in enhanced IFN gamma production by T cells at an early stage (...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Kuroda Y,Yokoyama T,Saito M,Ebina T,Hoshino F,Ishida N

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of influenza rapid diagnostic tests (IRDTs) currently available in Japan for various influenza virus strains, including human H7N9 and H5N1 isolates, were compared and it was found that all of the IRDTs examined detected these viruses; however, their detection sensitivities differed. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakai-Tagawa Y,Ozawa M,Yamada S,Uchida Y,Saito T,Takahashi K,Sugaya N,Tashiro M,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects approximately 170 million people worldwide. HCV infection is a major global health problem as it can be complicated with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. So far, there is no vaccine available and the non-specific, interferon (IFN)-based treatments now in u...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Aly HH,Shimotohno K,Hijikata M,Seya T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis spp. are opportunistic fungal pathogens that are closely associated with severe pneumonia and pulmonary complications in patients with impaired immunity. In this study, the antigenic epitopes of the gene encoding the 55 kDa antigen fragment of Pneumocystis (p55), which may play an important role in Pneumo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Fan H,Guo JY,Ma SL,Zhang N,An CL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butanol-extracted water-soluble adjuvant (Bu-WSA) obtained from Bacterionema matruchotii was cultured with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) in the presence of sub- and/or supra-optimal mitogenic concentrations of concanavalin A (Con A). The addition of Bu-WSA resulted in increased tritiated thymidine incorpora...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nitta T,Okumura S,Tsushi M,Nakano M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant pertussis DNA vaccine was described here with its immunogenicity and the ability to induce protection against B. pertussis infection in mice. Three immunodominant antigen gene fragments of pertussis, pertussis toxin subunit 1 (pts1), fragments of pertactin (prn) and filamentous hemagglutinin (fha), were ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Li Q,Zhu Y,Chu J,Wang Y,Xu Y,Hou Q,Zhang S,Guo X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the R-form lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Klebsiella pneumoniae strain LEN-111 (O3-:K1-), from which cationic material had been removed by electrodialysis, was suspended in 50 mM Tris buffer at pH 8.5 containing 0.1 mM or higher concentrations of MgCl2, it formed an ordered two-dimensional hexagonal lattice struct...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kato N,Ohta M,Kido N,Arakawa Y,Ito H,Naito S

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Using a mouse monoclonal antibody (MAb) 2F raised against Vibrio cholerae non-O1 heat-stable enterotoxin (NAG-ST) which also recognizes a shared epitope of Yersinia enterocolitica heat-stable enterotoxin (Y-ST), a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for independent detection of NAG-ST a...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nair GB,Bhattacharya SK,Takeda T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline (pp-tet), and kanamycin (pp-kan) resistance genes were cloned from a transferable R plasmid of fish pathogen Pasteurella piscicida, and complete nucleotide sequences were determined. The pp-tet was a class D Tet determinant constructed with the tetA resistance gene of 1,182 bp encoding a protein with a de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kim EH,Aoki T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By subcutaneous inoculation of 10(8) CFU of enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7, specific-pathogen-free mice revealed most of the symptoms and histological changes observed in patients. The histological changes in intestine were mainly seen in the distal parts of small intestine and the cecum. Vacuolation of villi in th...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Lai XH,Xu JG,Liu BY

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompA gene, 981 bp in size and identified in the Mycobacterium bovis genome, was cloned and sequenced. Predicted amino acid sequences showed a protein of molecular weight 33.5 kDa with an isoelectric point of 7.28 and an OmpA conserved domain at the carboxy terminal with signal sequence at the N-terminal. Homology ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Singh JP,Verma R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of 136 turkeys (24 manifesting infra-orbital sinusitis, 112 apparently healthy) resulted in isolation of 79 strains of Mycoplasma and 4 of Acholeplasma. By the disc growth inhibition test with 16 reference antisera of avian serogroups, 55 strains were identified serologically and 28 remained unidentified...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： El Sayed SA,Chandiramani NK,Garg DN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal, thioglycollate-stimulated and BCG-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages were cultivated in vitro with the conditioned medium of mouse L-929 cells. The thioglycollate- and BCG-macrophages rapidly proliferated, whereas normal macrophages grew more slowly. A clear morphological difference between the three types...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Nozawa RT,Yanaki N,Yokota T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune responses of individuals exposed to Leishmania major were evaluated and compared with those of non-exposed volunteers. Forty-one patients with active lesion(s), 43 healed individuals, 15 vaccinees 1 month or 1 year post vaccination, and 15 non-exposed volunteers were studied. Leishmanin skin test (LST) resp...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Alimohammadian MH,Darabi H,Malekzadeh S,Mahmoodzadeh-Niknam H,Ajdary S,Khamesipour A,Bahonar A,Mofarrah A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible role of intracellular Ca2+ and participation of calmodulin in cellular metabolism in endotoxin-poisoned mice were investigated. The levels of calcium in liver cytosol and liver mitochondria fractions in poisoned mice were markedly higher 18-48 hr after endotoxin injection than in the control mice. On the ot...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakaguchi S,Abe H,Sakaguchi O

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:The ability of 33 compounds of L-alanine analogues over a wide range of concentrations to initiate germination of Bacillus subtilis spores was determined, and the inhibitory activity against L-alanine-initiated germination was determined for the above compounds and 22 of their D- and DL-isomers. Nineteen L-isomers wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG20 is an ribonuclease specific for single-stranded RNA and considered to play a role in innate immunity against virus infections. We herein show that both poly IC, an authentic double-stranded RNA, and IFN-gamma induced ISG20 expression in cultured HUVEC. Poly IC-induced ISG20 expression was inhibited by LY294002, ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Imaizumi T,Mechti N,Matsumiya T,Sakaki H,Kubota K,Yoshida H,Kimura H,Satoh K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) PA-X is a critical ribonuclease protein involved in host cell shutoff but its role in modulating the host immune response to IAV infection remains to be addressed. In this study, host cellular proteins that directly interact with PA-X were screened to investigate the biological function of PA-X...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Li M,Qi W,Chang Q,Chen R,Zhen D,Liao M,Wen J,Deng Y

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:ICR mice were immunized with sheep red blood cells (sRBC). Both adenosine deaminase (ADA) and purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) activities in spleen lymphocytes increased faster than the serum antibody titer and reached a peak one week after the immunization. ADA activity increased significantly in T lymphocytes b...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kurashige S,Akuzawa Y,Yoshida T,Teshima C,Kodama K,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of LV in two different species, CD-1 mice, without a genetic disposition for diabetes, and BB rats prone to T1D were examined. Male CD-1 mice that had been exposed to LV in utero developed a type 2-like diabetes with increased blood glucose, insulin levels and epididymal fat at the age of 10-15 weeks. Comb...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Holmberg R,Klitz W,Blixt M,Berggren PO,Juntti-Berggren L,Niklasson B

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fr/V and Oc/V sibling viruses of the Osaka-1 strain of the subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) virus were defective in cell-free virus production. By radioimmunoprecipitation assay, the matrix (M) protein was not detected in cells persistently infected with the Osaka-1 strain. This undetectable expression w...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ayata M,Hayashi K,Seto T,Murata R,Ogura H

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:Sixty-eight sera from the acute, recurrent, and provoked types of female genital herpes were compared for the seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 by immunodot assay using HSV glycoprotein G. In the HSV-1-isolated patients, no HSV-2 antibodies were detected, whereas in the HSV-2-isolated patients...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hashido M,Lee FK,Nahmias AJ,Kawana T

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Dengue virus multiplication in cultures of a murine myelomonocytic cell line (WEHI-3) as well as mouse peritoneal macrophages was enhanced by treatment of the cells with lipophilic derivatives of muramyl peptides for 2 or 3 days before virus inoculation, but not for 2 hr before virus inoculation or during the adsorpti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Hotta H,Sanchez LF,Takada H,Homma M,Kotani S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00