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... vaccine does not reduce immunogenicity: pre-clinical assessment of the efficacy of a Listeria vaccine in the induction of immune responses against HIV Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines ... cells While the levels of immunity generated in these animals was certainly not as high as with other vaccines, we believe that at the time of measurement a significant proportion of the response ... with μCi per well of 3H-thymidine (PerkinElmer, Boston, MA) for 18 h prior to harvesting Thymidine incorporation was assessed using a b-scintillation counter (Beckman Coulter, Inc., Miami, FL)...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... adjuvants on inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF-α) In order to determine whether adjuvants exert any effects on induction of inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-6 and/ or TNF-α, the levels of these ... elimination of the infectious agent from the blood streams and peritoneum In contrast, mice immunized with either PBS or IFA die within 1–3 days Underlying mechanisms defining the differences in ... [6,7] Therefore, vaccines that interact with both components of the immune system have the ability to induce effective prophylaxis against a variety of infectious diseases In bacterial infection,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... suppression of respiration during hypoxia In the absence of differential regulation of a specific nuclear gene coding for the subunits of CytOX, changes in the microenvironment of the cell may induce ... the effects of hypoxia on the steady state levels of nuclear genome encoded CytOX IV and Vb mRNAs There was no change in the levels of these mRNAs in macrophages at h of hypoxia, the time point ... assayed in membrane fragments (SMP) by the method of Smith [20], wherein the rate of oxidation of ferrocytochrome c was measured by following the decrease in absorbency of its a band at 550 nm The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... the inhibition in the induction of 5018 ACS4 [28] during the early response and the inhibition of ACS4 and StAR inductions during the sustained phase In both phases, the presence of DBI ⁄ PBR may ... explain the mechanism by which in these situations there is a remaining 20% of steroid synthesis, due to the direct effect of AA ⁄ AA-CoA produced within the mitochondria by the action of ACS4 ... cells lation of steroidogenesis using 300 lm AA in the presence of albumin These different results can be explained by the fact that protein binding can increase the overall concentration of fatty...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... of octanol) In respect of aliphatic ester production, it was found that the longer the carbon chain of the alcohol, the higher the AAT activity The activity of ester formation was in increasing ... provided by the manufacturer (Invitrogen) The strain harbouring the correct construction was incubated in selecting liquid medium according to Invitrogen recommendations, until the D600 of the culture ... detected in fruit (Table 1), indicating that the availability of some acyl donors is a limiting factor in vivo Table shows some kinetic properties of the recombinant CM-AAT1 protein for some of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... availability decreased with increasing drought in the soil, stressing the importance of reduced influx of CO as an important factor for drought-induced declines of photosynthesis These results are discussed ... m The same computation of g applied to m the data of the water-stress experiment would result in a decrease of g during m drought The reality of such a decrease is very questionable In fact, the ... efflux of water vapour limiting the inward diffusion of CO (Von Caemmerer and Farquhar, 1981) .The mes- ophyll conductance as defined here results from a combination of gas phase diffusion in the intercellular...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... capable of differentiating into TR cells following activation are derived from a separate lineage of CD4+ T cells, and whether their induction is a result of the initial activation early in the inflammatory ... cells leading to ‘infectious tolerance’, thus inducing the local induction of Th3 or Tr1 cells [74], extends this paradigm The fate of the TR cells induced at the site is not known — whether these ... antigen exposures, the development of CD4+CD25+ TR cells may occur in the periphery in man Induction of CD4+CD25+ TR cells in the periphery The induction of TR cells that resemble the ‘natural’ or...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... at the start of night prolongation, or 12 wk, an important role in the possibility of the buds to attain a deeper stage of dormancy Only the 12 wk old plants of northern origin had no flushing ... the chilling requirement to break winter dormancy in Scots pine has been stressed (e.g., Wareing, 1951; Vegis, 1965; Sarvas, 1974) In the following,I will use the working definition of dormancy ... buds after wk under growing conditions These seedlings had their most dormant buds after 13 h nights They lost some dormancy during the further prolongation to 16 h played of any plant meristem.&dquo;...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... components The profile was similar to that induced by a combination of IL-1/TNF, which might indicate the involvement of an inflammatory cytokine-mediated pathway in the observed induction of MMPs ... defense against infection Inhibition of its activity could therefore be anticipated to augment the risk of infection in patients with RA The reasons for the predominance of S aureus in SA and the mechanisms ... have a wide variety of proteins, and identification of the components that are actually responsible for inducing the MMP induction is essential to determine the mechanisms of induction as well...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... protein D plays an important role in delaying the appearance of pneumococci in the blood and in limiting their numbers in the bloodstream SP-D binds and agglutinates S pneumoniae in the presence of ... currently in the process of investigating these questions In summary, the absence of lung surfactant protein D increases the persistence of pneumococcal colonisation and infection in the upper ... strains, increased recruitment of neutrophils into inflamed areas of lung tissue was detected within the bronchiolar lumen, in the bronchiole wall and also in the perivascular areas within the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... expressed in latently infected cell lines, even before induction of the integrated virus into active replication In an approach analogous to our hypotheses concerning the involvement of cellular ... show that several other RNA binding proteins are differentially regulated during HIV-1 replication, suggesting that there may be a general involvement of these classes of genes in the HIV replication ... encoding other RNA binding factors may indicate that such gene products are involved in other aspects of HIV replication These aspects of HIV replication could involve activities in which the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... and the results should not be generalized to the inpatient setting Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Author details Clinical Fellow, Department of Critical ... defibrillation administered by first responder There was no difference between tenecteplase and placebo in the primary endpoint of 30-day survival or for any of the secondary endpoints, though there was ... arrest [6,7] A number of studies have evaluated the efficacy of thrombolysis during out -of- hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation A meta-analysis of these studies, including one prospective and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... al., as well as in our study, the precise mechanism involved in cTnI release remained uncertain in the absence of coronary angiography [15] This increase in cTnI is not surprising since cardiac ... they have no competing interests Authors' contributions PHa participated in the conception and design of the study, in the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data, and was involved in ... central nervous system involvement) which remains valid in exertional heatstroke occurring in young individuals should no longer be retained during classic heatstroke occurring during a heat wave,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... technique may increase veterinarian and patient acceptance of vaccination by reducing the number of injections and avoiding the use of boosters containing live vectors Using this technology, vaccinologists ... concerning the safety of using live attenuated viruses that have been replaced by subunit or DNA vaccines alone In the prevention of TB, the prime-boost strategy of combining DNA priming and boosting ... vaccines, each encoding the same antigen, administered some weeks apart In the prevention of TB, the prime-boost strategy of combining DNA priming and boosting with BCG or recombinant proteins has been...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... rich in proline, serine and threonine residues, and then finally a C-terminal SH3 domain The SH3 domain of cortactin binds with multiple partners, for example the proline-rich domain of dynamin-II ... (WASP-interacting protein) which is involved in filopodia formation [66] Figure Cortactin structural domains Fig The structural domains of cortactin and the interactions of cortactin with other ... which mediates the binding with multiple partners including cortactin Figure Dynamin structural domains Fig The structural domains of dynamin and the interaction of dynamin with cortactin (see text...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 12:36

... influence inflammasome activation in macrophages Our aims were to determine the role of the T3SS in the induction of autophagy in macrophages following infection with PA, and to investigate the ... 86 Figure 3.8; Induction of autophagy in THP-1 cells by P aeruginosa 88 Figure 3.9; Induction of autophagy in D.cells by P aeruginosa 89 Figure 3.10; Induction of autophagy in J774A.1 cells ... 4.18; Inhibition of Caspase-1 increases induction of type I IFNs following P.aeruginosa infection 148 Figure 4.19; Inhibiting TRIF cleavage increases induction of type I IFNs following...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 19:57

... Atg24 bind PtdIns(3)P and belong to the sorting nexin family that functions in protein trafficking from the Golgi to the endosome (Hettema et al., 2003); and are involved in the Cvt pathway in S ... placed on induction medium plates containing 200 µM Acetosyringone, 60 µg/mL Streptomycin and 100 µg/mL Ampicillin Air-dry the liquid on the filter in the laminar flow hood Incubate the mixture ... within the ATG8 locus) to remove the fragment spanning approximately last 500 bp of the promoter and first 72 bp of the coding sequence of ATG8 The resultant vector was then ligated with the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... OP-2 strains The indicated strains were initially grown in the dark for days and then subjected to constant illumination to induce conidiation At the specified time-points post induction, the fungal ... of Gph1 in Magnaporthe (A) Identification of proteins differentially regulated in the atg8Δ mutant Silver-stained profile of the SDS-PAGE gel depicting total proteins extracted from conidiating ... of autophagy during asexual development in Magnaporthe To further confirm the direct involvement of Gph1p-regulated glycogen metabolism in Magnaporthe conidiogenesis, we assessed the effect of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... characterization of an atg20∆ mutant in Magnaporthe 90 4.2.2 Subcellular localization of Atg20 .90 4.2.3 Investigation of non-selective autophagy and the Cvt pathway in the atg20∆ mutant ... 98 4.2.4 Investigation of pexophagy in the atg20∆ mutant 100 4.2.4.1 Pexophagy is defective in the atg20∆ mutant 100 4.2.4.2 Pexophagy is not induced during Magnaporthe conidiogenesis ... selective, depending on the specific biological circumstance and/or the specific inducer involved Autophagy was first identified and characterized in yeast and in animal cells In recent years, autophagy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... evidences implicating autophagy induction and inhibition during carcinogenesis; however the exact role of autophagy in carcinogenesis remains to be elucidated With the zebrafish gaining popularity as ... present in a gene-ofinterest Progeny identified to carry the desired mutations are then propagated to maintain the line to study the function of the gene -of- interest Furthermore, fluorescent proteins ... separated using a divider in a tank the night before Spawning was induced by the removal of the divider and allowing the fish to mate on the following morning Following that, the breeding pair was...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:35