Specimens from 95 patients attending a venereal diseases clinic were examined for gonococci by three methods-a conventional culture technique using modified Thayer-Martin medium, microscopy of a Gram-stained direct smear, and the Microcult system. For 56?' of the specimens the results by all three methods agreed. Assuming the results obtained by culture on Thayer-Martin medium to be correct, th...

Specimens from 95 patients attending a venereal diseases clinic were examined for gonococci by three methods--a conventional culture technique using modified Thayer-Martin medium, microscopy of a Gram-stained direct smear, and the Microcult system. For 56% of the specimens the results by all three methods agreed. Assuming the results obtained by culture on Thayer-Martin medium to be correct, th...

Enhancement of pullulanase production by Raoultella planticola DSMZ 4617 using optimized medium formulation was investigated in batch fermentation using 500-mL shake flask. The fermentations were carried out, firstly, to search for a suitable cultivation medium for enzyme production and followed by the evaluations on the influence of carbon and nitrogen sources and also initial culture pHs on t...

The common effect of NH4+, NO3-, KH2PO4 and sucrose on the biosynthesis of galanthamine by a Leucojum aestivum shoot culture was studied. Polynominal regression models were elaborated for the description of the galanthamine biosynthesis as a consequence of variation of the investigated variables (NH4+ between 0.20 and 0.54 g/L; NO3- between 1.44 and 3.44 g/L; KH2PO4 between 0.10 and 0.24 g/L, a...

Activated macrophage phenotypes were influenced by the culture medium; a murine macrophage-like cell line, J774.1/JA-4, expresses different activated-macrophage phenotypes induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and/or interferon-γ (IFN-γ) when the cells are incubated in either Ham’s F-12 medium (F-12) or Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium (DMEM). Among these phenotypes, NO production and iNOS expres...

This present study investigated the effect of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation on bioactivity of micro-arc oxidized (MAO) titanium surface in vitro by cell culture medium immersion test and interactions with rat-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). UV-irradiated MAO surface exhibited no obvious changes in surface roughness, morphology, and phase composition when compared with MAO-only surface. Ho...

A cambendazole-resistant (CR) strain of Haemonchus contortus, the large stomach nematode of sheep, had similar in vitro growth characteristics compared to the parent strain (BPL). When the in vitro cultivation system was modified to detect drug resistance: (1) exsheathed infective larvae of the BPL strain did not develop in a culture medium with a concentration of 2.5 /ug/rnl thiabendazole (TBZ...

A mycological medium was developed for primary isolation and culture of lipophilic yeasts. It was initially based on published information of nutrients and trace components that would promote the growth of these yeasts. It was subsequently modified and adjusted to specifically promote the growth of lipophilic yeasts and simultaneously avoid the luxurious growth of other fungi and bacteria. With...

Regulation of the macrophage receptor for modified low density lipoprotein (LDL) was evaluated using human monocyte-derived macrophages and acetyl LDL. Factors that regulate native LDL receptor activity in other cell types, such as the cholesterol content of the incubation medium, insulin, and platelet-derived growth factor had no effect on acetyl LDL degradation. Conditioned medium from mature...

Cell lines and reagents: Matrigel was from BD Biosciences. The highly metastatic lung-tropic MDA-MB231 subline 4175 was kindly provided by Dr. J. Massague [1]. MCF10A, 4T1, and 4T07 cells were kindly provided by Dr. Fred Miller (Karmanos Cancer Institute, MI). BT20 and MCF7 were purchased from ATCC. 4T1, and 4T07 cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium with 5% FBS, 5% newborn ...