Enterotoxins
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Subject Areas on Research
- A neutralizing epitope of the superantigen SEA has agonist activity on T cells.
- A synthetic peptide homologous to retroviral envelope protein down-regulates TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma mRNA expression.
- Accelerated induction of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in PL/J mice by a non-V beta 8-specific superantigen.
- Bacterial gastroenteritis.
- Bacterial surface association of heat-labile enterotoxin through lipopolysaccharide after secretion via the general secretory pathway.
- Biogenesis, cellular localization, and functional activation of the heat-stable enterotoxin receptor (guanylyl cyclase C).
- Clinical and immunologic significance of cholera-like toxin and cytotoxin production by Campylobacter species in patients with acute inflammatory diarrhea in the USA.
- Clostridium difficile infection and treatment in the pediatric inflammatory bowel disease population.
- Comparison of two rapid assays for Clostridium difficile Common antigen and a C difficile toxin A/B assay with the cell culture neutralization assay.
- Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh.
- Context-dependent activation kinetics elicited by soluble versus outer membrane vesicle-associated heat-labile enterotoxin.
- Cutting edge: trimolecular interaction of TCR with MHC class II and bacterial superantigen shows a similar affinity to MHC:peptide ligands.
- Cytokines: the future of intranasal vaccine adjuvants.
- Detection of Clostridium difficile as a routine diagnosis: comparison of real-time PCR and enzyme immunoassay.
- Detection of Escherichia coli enterotoxins in stools.
- Diarrhoea associated with heat-stable enterotoxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli.
- Editorial: Toxigenic turista.
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Reovirus-like agent in rural Bangladesh.
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli secretes active heat-labile enterotoxin via outer membrane vesicles.
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli vesicles target toxin delivery into mammalian cells.
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin.
- Epidemiologic assessment of the relevance of the so-called enteropathogenic serogroups of Escherichia coli in diarrhea.
- Epitope maps of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin B subunit for development of a synthetic oral vaccine.
- Extrinsic surgical denervation inhibits Clostridium difficile toxin A-induced enteritis in rats.
- Heat-labile enterotoxin: beyond G(m1) binding.
- Human IFN-gamma production is inhibited by a synthetic peptide homologous to retroviral envelope protein.
- Impairing oral tolerance promotes allergy and anaphylaxis: a new murine food allergy model.
- Induction of mitogenic signalling in the 1LN prostate cell line on exposure to submicromolar concentrations of cadmium+.
- Laboratory investigation of diarrhea in travelers to Mexico: evaluation of methods for detecting enterotoxigenic Echerichia coli.
- Lipopolysaccharide 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (Kdo) core determines bacterial association of secreted toxins.
- Mechanism of action of Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin. Effects on adenylate cyclase of toad and rat erythrocyte plasma membranes.
- Mechanism of activation of adenylate cyclase by Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin.
- Mechanism of activation of adenylate cyclase by Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin. Relations to the mode of activation by hormones.
- Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis isolates are associated with clonal complex 30 genotype and a distinct repertoire of enterotoxins and adhesins.
- Mucosal and systemic anti-HIV responses in rhesus macaques following combinations of intranasal and parenteral immunizations.
- Part III. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005.
- Persistence of zinc-binding bacterial superantigens at the surface of antigen-presenting cells contributes to the extreme potency of these superantigens as T-cell activators.
- Plakoglobin and High-Mobility Group Box 1 Mediate Intestinal Epithelial Cell Apoptosis Induced by Clostridioides difficile TcdB.
- Polychromatic plots: graphical display of multidimensional data.
- Relationship between enterotoxin production and serotype in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- Residues of heat-labile enterotoxin involved in bacterial cell surface binding.
- Risk factors for and estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, North Carolina, USA.
- Role of platelet activating factor in the inflammatory and secretory effects of Clostridium difficile toxin A.
- Selection of TCR V alpha by MHC class II predicts superantigen reactivity.
- Serologic differentiation between antitoxin responses to infection with Vibrio cholerae and enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
- Solid-phase microtiter radioimmunoassay blocking test for detection of antibodies to Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin.
- Specificity of the type II secretion systems of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae for heat-labile enterotoxin and cholera toxin.
- Structure and function of cholera toxin and hormone receptors.
- Substance P activation of enteric neurons in response to intraluminal Clostridium difficile toxin A in the rat ileum.
- Superantigen enhanced protection against a weak tumor-specific melanoma antigen: implications for prophylactic vaccination against cancer.
- Transcriptional down-regulation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene expression by a synthetic peptide homologous to retroviral envelope protein.
- Use of antisera for identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
- Use of colony pools for diagnosis of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea.
- Yield of stool culture with isolate toxin testing versus a two-step algorithm including stool toxin testing for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile.
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Keywords of People
- Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
- Cianciolo, George James, Associate Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Pathology