Surface characteristics of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria in an atomic force microscope image.

abstract：:Integration of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) in the genomes of infected cells was investigated in cattle with enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL) and sporadic bovine leukosis (SBL). Southern blot hybridization of BLV cDNA to Eco RI and Xba I restriction fragments of EBL tumor DNAs revealed that: 1) one to four or more copies...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Onuma M,Sagata N,Okada K,Ogawa Y,Ikawa Y,Oshima K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the simple and rapid detection/identification of major pathogenic fungal species such as Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata and Aspergillus fumigatus, common primers for these species and specific primers for each species, designed on the basis on the genomic nucleotide sequences of the ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanbe T,Arishima T,Horii T,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with whether lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) is related to LPS-susceptibility of either mother or fetus and how LPS or LPS-induced TNF causes IUFD. LPS-susceptible C3H/HeN or -hypo-susceptible C3H/HeJ pregnant mice and the mice mated reciprocally with these mic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kohmura Y,Kirikae T,Kirikae F,Nakano M,Sato I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence of hantavirus strain of SR-11 Seoul virus and Hantaan 76-118 (HTN) of Hantaan virus were compared. Infections of both strains were lethal in newborn mice. However, inoculum required to cause lethal infection was about 4,000 times higher for strain HTN (1.65 x 10(3) PFU/mouse/LD50) than for strain SR-11 (0.36...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoo YC,Yoshimatsu K,Yoshida R,Tamura M,Azuma I,Arikawa J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extract of Candida albicans isolated from a patient with typical mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MCLS) can produce coronary arteritis in a mouse when injected intraperitoneally. An unusual feature of this arteritis is that it is granulomatous, shows no fibrinoid change and is confined to the coronary arteries. T...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Murata H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) open reading frame (ORF) VI product (P6) has been shown to be the major constituent of viral inclusion body, to function as a post-transcriptional transactivator, and to be essential for infectivity on whole plants. Although these findings suggest that P6 has an important role in viral ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kobayashi K,Tsuge S,Nakayashiki H,Mise K,Furusawa I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vpr, one of the accessory molecules of HIV-1, has been demonstrated to arrest the cell cycle at the G2 phase. This Vpr-mediated cell cycle arrest is implicated to have an important role in the viral life cycle. In the present study, we quantitate the extent of Vpr-mediated cell cycle arrest with the use of a bicistron...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Watanabe N,Nakauchi H,Koito A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One strain each of granular and downy varieties of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and two strains each of granular and floccose colonial types Trichophyton rubrum were used for preparation of antigens. The antigens were analyzed by double diffusion against homologous and heterologous antisera raised in rabbits. A total o...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shukla NP,Agarwal GP

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:We constructed a plasmid containing bovine leukemia virus (BLV)-tax gene driven by SR alpha promoter, designated as pME-BLVtax, to activate the promoter of the long terminal repeat (LTR) of BLV in various tumor cells. Activation of the promoter of BLV-LTR by pME-BLVtax was confirmed by luciferase assay. When the cells...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tana,Watarai S,Aida Y,Tajima S,Kakidani H,Onuma M,Kodama H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the mechanism of spontaneous B cell activation in lupus mice by using anticlass-II antibody in vitro. The in vitro culture of B cells from old NZB mice markedly produced Ig without any stimulation, while B cells from NZW mice did not. The addition of anticlass-II antibody (anti-Iad antibody) to the culture...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saito K,Tanaka Y,Ota T,Eto S,Yamashita U

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:It has been suggested that infectious entry of rubella virus (RV) is conducted by receptor mediated endocytosis. To explore the cellular entry mechanism of RV, inhibitory effects of drugs affecting various endocytic pathways on RV entry into VeroE6 cells were analyzed. Results showed that RV infectious entry into Vero...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kee SH,Cho EJ,Song JW,Park KS,Baek LJ,Song KJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium strain 9 produces mini-cells during cell proliferation. Mini-cells are viable but cannot proliferate since they do not contain chromosomal DNA. Effects of whole cells and mini-cells of S. typhimurium on the immune responses were investigated, with the following results. Phagocytosis of peritonea...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kurashige S,Yoshida T,Kodama K,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have proved the relevance of local immune responses, rather than systemic immunity, to the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis. Indeed, allergen-specific B lymphocyte undergoes class switching to IgE in situ. However, the relative contribution of in situ production to the amount in serum is still ambiguous....

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida T,Usui A,Kusumi T,Inafuku S,Sugiyama T,Koide N,Yokochi T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from bovine intramammary infection (mastitis) were tested for adhesion to bovine mammary epithelial cells after growth in milk whey or TSB. Bacteria grown in milk whey adhered more efficiently to mammary gland epithelial cells in vitro than the corresponding homologous bacteria g...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mamo W,Fröman G

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Two methods of TSS diagnosis were evaluated: comparison of symptoms with clinical criteria and monitoring for evidence of selective activation of Vbeta2(+) T cells by the causative toxin, TSS toxin-1 (TSST-1). Ten patients with acute and systemic febrile infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus were monitored for in...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Matsuda Y,Kato H,Ono E,Kikuchi K,Muraoka M,Takagi K,Imanishi K,Itoh S,Itoh T,Ogawa T,Nitta K,Inokuchi S,Hibi T,Ohta H,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:The present study was done to determine the molecular epidemiology of rabies virus (RV) in Vietnam. The nucleoprotein (N) and glycoprotein (G) genes of RVs were amplified from the brains of ten rabid dogs of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The nucleotide sequences of these genes were compared with those of other Asian stra...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yamagata J,Ahmed K,Khawplod P,Mannen K,Xuyen DK,Loi HH,Dung NV,Nishizono A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard products of V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes are two kinds of DNA junction, a coding joint and a signal joint. TCR delta V-D and D-D signal joints in adult mouse thymocytes were sequenced following PCR amplification. We observed differential nucleotide insertions at the V de...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kanari Y,Muto M,Yamagishi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae chrysovirus 1 strain A (MoCV1-A) is the causal agent of growth repression and attenuated virulence (hypovirulence) of the rice blast fungus, M. oryzae. We have previously reported that heterologous expression of MoCV1-A ORF4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results in growth defects, a large central vacu...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Urayama S,Fukuhara T,Moriyama H,Toh-E A,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test for susceptibility to kanamycin is useful for differentiating between the genera Rhodococcus and Nocardia. All rhodococci except R. equi, R. erythropolis, and R. aurantiacus are susceptible to kanamycin, whereas all nocardiae except N. otitidis-caviarum are resistant to kanamycin. Tests for susceptibility to ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsukamura M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains TKU9, TKU49 and TKU50(T) , were isolated from the oral cavities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The isolates were all gram-positive, facultative anaerobic cocci that lacked catalase activity. Analysis of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the most closely related species was Streptococcus infa...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Okamoto M,Imai S,Miyanohara M,Saito W,Momoi Y,Nomura Y,Ikawa T,Ogawa T,Miyabe-Nishiwaki T,Kaneko A,Watanabe A,Watanabe S,Hayashi M,Tomonaga M,Hanada N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric PCV1-2 clone containing the PCV2 capsid gene cloned into the backbone of the nonpathogenic PCV1 genome was recently generated based on PCV2 and PCV1 strains isolated in China. The efficacy of this available candidate inactivated vaccine was evaluated by subjecting conventional pigs to intramuscular immuniza...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Xujie L,Xiaobo W,Yi S,Jing F,Song G,Xiufan L

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:A 4-year (1996-2000) survey of rotavirus infection involving 2,218 diarrheal fecal specimens of children collected from five regions of Japan was conducted. A total of 642 (28.9%) specimens were found to be rotavirus positive. A changed prevalence pattern of rotavirus G serotype was found with an increase of G9 and G2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Zhou Y,Li L,Okitsu S,Maneekarn N,Ushijima H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, quantitative, short-time, and reproducible focus assay for Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus is described. After 2 or 3 days of incubation, the infected cells were treated with anti-JE virus serum and complement, and subsequently stained with trypan blue; then clear foci were produced. This method made it ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kimura-Kuroda J,Yasui K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MoAb) to human neutrophils, designated 3H9, was established by screening for the inhibition of neutrophil adherence to plastic plates containing a medium supplemented with fetal calf serum (FCS medium). The antigen recognized by 3H9 was shown to be present on human leukocytes and found at the hi...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ohtake K,Takei H,Watanabe T,Sato Y,Yamashita T,Sudo K,Kuroki M,Chihara J,Sendo F

更新日期：1997-01-01 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