Humoral bactericidal systems: nonspecific and specific mechanisms

Quasi - Specific , or Nonspecific ? Specific , − Invertebrate Immune Systems

Specific and Nonspecific Outcomes

These interventions, practices, and disciplines are grouped together in this plan as mind and body* approaches because, from a research perspective, they all share a set of characteristics that create similar challenges in designing rigorous and definitive clinical investigations of their benefit and safety. For example, (1) it is generally difficult or impossible to mask practitioners and/or p...

Bactericidal mechanisms in rabbit alveolar macrophages: evidence against peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide bactericidal mechanisms.

The role of peroxidase-mediated bacterial killing by rabbit alveolar macrophages was examined. During 3 h of incubation in vitro, alveolar macrophages ingested and killed greater than 88% of the Streptococcus faecalis, Proteus mirabilis, or Streptococcus pneumoniae present in the incubation mixture. Preincubation of alveolar macrophages with inhibitors of catalase, 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole or sod...

Specific and Nonspecific Mechanisms in the Autoimmune Breakdown of Myelin roe I van der veen

The effect of myelin basic protein (MBP) of central nervous tissue onthe protease inhibitors, alpha) antitrypsin (aι AT) and alpha;macroglobulm (агМ) wasstudied (л vitro For this purpose. 2 characteristics of the protease inhibitors were used,viz their pattern after isoelectric focusing and their trypsm-binding capacity Bothfeatures of purified a^AT disappeared in the presence o...

Streptococcus suis serotype 9 endocarditis and subsequent severe meningitis in a growing pig despite specific bactericidal humoral immunity

INTRODUCTION . Meningitis and endocarditis are common pathologies of Streptococcussuis infections in pigs and humans. S. suis serotype 9 strains contribute substantially to health problems in European pig production, and immune prophylaxis against this serotype is very difficult. CASE PRESENTATION . We report the clinical course and histopathological picture of a 10-week-old growing pig follo...