abstract：:The serovar-specific main antigen (TM antigen) of Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola, which as lipopolysaccharide properties, was treated with 0.1 N sodium hydroxide. This treatment degraded the antigen into two major antigenic components, one of high and one of low molecular weight. The component with the lower ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tsuji M,Kawaoka Y,Naiki M,Yanagawa R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type-common surface antigens (CSA) in a representative cell clone (155-4-03) of hamster cell line 155-4 transformed by HSV type 2 was enhanced by treatment with inhibitors of RNA synthesis [adriamycin (ADM) and daunomycin] but not with inhibitors of DNA synthesis (2-iododeo...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kako D,Ohnishi Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:A total of 207 strains of Bordetella bronchiseptica isolated from pigs in 1978 and 1979 were tested for drug resistance and for the properties of their R plasmids. Apart from intrinsic resistance to spectinomycin, single (sulfadimethoxine), double (sulfadimethoxine and streptomycin), andt riple (sulfadimethoxine, stre...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shimizu M,Kuninori K,Inoue M,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of BHK-21-KB cells by vesicular stomatitis virus was not induced in Eagle's minimal essential medium without glucose. In medium containing glucose, the rate of polykaryocyte formation decreased as the concentration of glucose was reduced below 5 mM. However, no reduction in virus production 24 hr after infe...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Takehara M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective and differential media were designed for each species of Pityrosporum; P. pachydermatis, P. ovale, and P. orbiculare in order to make feasible a quantitative cultivation. Medium for P. pachydermatis (medium A) was composed of 1% trypticase peptone (BBL), 0.5% yeast extract (BBL), 0.3% glucose, 0.2% NaCl, 1.2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Ushijima T,Takahashi M,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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：:A mouse model for the study of postexposure prophylaxis of rabies was established. Mice injected intramuscularly with a street strain of rabies virus were significantly protected from death by five daily 0.2-ml doses of inactivated rabies vaccine of chick embryo cell culture origin initiated immediately or 3 hr after ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Mifune K,Shichijo A,Makino Y,Takeuchi E,Yamada A,Sakamoto K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of B cell tolerance were studied in an attempt to learn whether B cells rendered tolerant are present in the immune system in a potentially responsive form. The author tested the in vitro anti-trinitrophenyl (TNP) antibody-forming cell (anti-TNP AFC) response to TNP-immunogens and polyclonal B cell acti...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Uchiyama T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population levels of intestinal microflora and bile acid composition in the digestive tract were examined in rats fed bile acids to determine the relationships between gastrointestinal microflora and the host. The population level of Bacteroides was increased in the ceca of rats fed cholic acid or deoxycholic acid...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sakai K,Makino T,Kawai Y,Mutai M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was purified and subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in discontinuous buffer systems. Three bands were revealed by staining with Coomassie blue; two of them (E1 and E2) were associated with the membrane, and one (C) with the core. Their molecular weights wer...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Konishi E,Hotta S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid requirements for the growth of Aedes albopictus, clone C6/36, cells and for the production of dengue (DEN) and Chikungunya (CHIK) viruses were examined by growing the cells or the viruses in media which were deprived of one of the 20 amino acids. Cell growth was markedly inhibited when cystine was omitted f...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Sasao F,Igarashi A,Fukai K

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen temperature-sensitive mutants of Sendai virus were isolated from mutagenized stocks (10 mutants, designated numerically) and persistently infected cultures (6 mutants, designated alphabetically). Based on complementation tests, virion-associated activities, thermal inactivation, and viral RNA and hemadsorbing ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Adachi A,Kanda T,Shibuta H

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Susceptibility of eight strains of influenza A and B viruses to interferon and to poly(I) . poly(C) were determined by the plaque reduction method. All strains tested were slightly less susceptible than vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in an established line of canine kidney (MDCK) cells. The 50% plaque depression dos...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Machida H,Kuninaka A,Yoshino H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptone-yeast extract (PY) medium containing 0.035% ferric ammonium citrate as an indicator, 0.05% sulfite as a substrate, 0.05% cysteine as a reducer and 0.5% glucose was found to be suitable for observing the sulfite reduction test. The effect of added cysteine on the test was suppressed by the addition of glucose. ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kawabata N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polar monotrichous flagella (M-flagella) of Vibrio parahaemolyticus have antigens in common with those of various species of Vibrio including V. cholerae and V. anguillarum, and of Beneckea, revealed by gel diffusion tests with flagelli monomers. However, antiserum against M-flagellin of V. parahaemolyticus did not ag...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Shinoda S,Senoh T,Asano K,Nakahara N,Ono B

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of macrophages with cytochalasin E in combination with a lectin was found to stimulate the generation of superoxide anions (O2-) very efficiently. The macrophages stimulated with concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin or wheat germ agglutinin released superoxide, but cells pretreated with cytochalasin E release...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Kayashima K,Onoue K,Nakagawara A,Minakami S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyze the host-parasite interactions in experimental trichomoniasis, the growth of Trichomonas foetus in the peritoneal cavity and changes in the peritoneal exudate cells were followed in mice treated with dextran sulfate 500 (DS 500), a known macrophage-toxic agent. Light microscopic observation showed ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Oka Y,Hayashi H,Ishikawa F,Osaki H

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:The mitogen effect on migration of eosinophils and monocytes was studied in embryonic chickens. On the 13th embryonic day, chickens were injected with mitogens, such as concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin-P (PHA-P), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), into the allantoic cavity, and the mitogenic effect was estimated ...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Moriya O,Ichikawa Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenitally athymic BALB/cA nu/nu mice were employed to elucidate the role of the thymus in experimental Mycoplasma pulmonis strain m53 infection, and nu/+ mice were used for comparison. Chronic polyarthritis was frequently produced in both of nu/nu and nu/+ mice by intravenous injection of the organisms. Macroscopic...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanaka H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous production of a rat C-type RNA virus (ACV) in a cultured cell line (AC cells) established from a chemically induced rat glioma was studied. The characteristics of ACV were: morphology typical of C-type RNA virus; buoyant density of 1.15 g/ml in a sucrose density gradient; RNA directed DNA polymerase ac...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Igarashi K,Sasada R,Niiyama Y,Kozai Y,Sugino Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiplague indirect hemagglutination tests were investigated with Yersinia pestis fraction-I antigen and sera from experimentally infected rodents. The same tests with sera treated with acetone or acetone-2-mercaptoethanol were performed in parallel. Technical conditions were determined to insure the specificity and r...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Suzuki S,Hotta S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy revealed multi-layered membranes within the cytoplasmic inclusion (accumulation of nucleocapsids) produced by rabies virus. When infected BHK cells were maintained at 31 C, an enhancement in production of these membranes occurred in approximately 60% of inclusion-containing cells. Multi-layered mem...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Tanabe K,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Frauch's micro-slide method was improved to facilitate the endpoint-determination of the Limulus test. Two precise observations, by inverted phase contrast microscopy and with a staining procedure, were newly performed as additions to the slide test. The staining procedure was proposed as an improved method for the Li...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Okuguchi S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature dependence of transfer was examined with ten R plasmids originating from clinical isolates of Salmonella. Six of the plasmids were thermosensitive upon transfer, five of which were originally harbored in S. typhimurium and the remaining one in S. derby. One of these plasmids, pNR502, which conferred resist...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Yoshida Y,Terawaki Y,Nakaya R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythematous delayed reactions without induration, presumably assigned to Jones-Mote type, were characterized by the resistance to treatment with cyclophosphamide (CY) before elicitation or immunization in guinea pigs immunized with BGG in IFA or CFA. CY-treatment before elicitation converted delayed erythematous reac...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Himeno K,Nomoto K,Takeya K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant MT of Micrococcus lysodeikticus (luteus) IFO 3333, whose minimum growing unit is not a single cell, but a tetrad unlike the wild-type divides by binary fission of each monococcus, and then separates first into two daughter tetrads, second into four tetrads and third into eight tetrads. The three planes of eit...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Monodane T,Matsushima Y,Kotani S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemadsorption (HAD) induced in HEp-2 cells infected with vaccinia virus was observed. In ultrathin sections, binding of 36 red blood cells (RBCs) was examined in detail and 3 types of HAD were observed: (1) direct and close binding of RBCs to infected HEp-2 cells (cyto-HAD) was observed in cross sections of 27 RBCs (2...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Saburi Y,Okuda K,Takahashi T,Tadokoro I

更新日期：1977-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution of indigenous lactobacilli in the gastrointestinal tracts of rats was investigated at the species level. The indigenous lactobacilli isolated from conventional rats were divided into three groups, Lactobacillus acidophilus and its related strains, L. fermentum, and L. murini. Localization of the Lactobaci...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe T,Morotomi M,Suegara N,Kawai Y,Mutai M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of each of three indigenous Lactobacillus groups on other bacterial populations were separately investigated in gnotobiotic rats. In the wall of the non-glandular part of the stomach, contents of the stomach and contents of the upper part of the small intestine, some pre-associated indigenous bacteria were red...

journal_title：Microbiology and immunology

authors： Watanabe T,Morotomi M,Kawai Y,Mutai M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00