Inactivation of E. coli O157:H7 Using a Pulsed Nonthermal Plasma System

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 646-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Montenegro ◽  
R. Ruan ◽  
H. Ma ◽  
P. Chen
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-170
Author(s):  
Jianyun Peng ◽  
Yongling Tao ◽  
Xiaoru Zhang ◽  
Meijuan Xiang ◽  
Zhihong Gui ◽  
...  

In order to purify blood and adsorb β2M, a highly selective immunosorbent biomaterial based on nano antibody was designed. First of all, nanoantibodies against β2M in patients with renal failure are screened by phage display library technology. After 4 rounds of screening, 12 kinds of monoclonal phage samples are compared by ELISA, and the highest affinity sequence A53 is obtained. Then, the nano antibody A53 is transferred into two kinds of host bacteria respectively, and the host E. coli Shuffle T7 is selected, and then purified by nickel column affinity, thus obtaining high purity nano antibody A53S. Five kinds of nano antibody adsorbents are prepared by using A53S as a component of adsorbent. The results show that the effect of D series adsorbent with ɛ-poly-L-lysine as spacer is better, but the ligand density should be adjusted reasonably to ensure the activity of nanoantibody protein. When the loading concentration of β2M is set to 1.8 mg/ml, adsorbent D-1 can adsorb 11.78 mg/ml of dynamic adsorption capacity of β2M. This index is significantly higher than the dynamic adsorption capacity of plasma system under the same conditions (P < 0.05), which proves that the nano antibody adsorbent biomaterial can effectively adsorb β2M, thus reducing the probability of dialysis complications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif Malik ◽  
Chunqi Jiang ◽  
Shirshak K. Dhali ◽  
Richard Heller ◽  
Karl H. Schoenbach

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 2496-2505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wamadeva Balachandran ◽  
Nadarajah Manivannan ◽  
Radu Beleca ◽  
Maysam F. Abbod ◽  
David Brennen ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
D. E. Philpott ◽  
A. Takahashi

Two month, eight month and two year old rats were treated with 10 or 20 mg/kg of E. Coli endotoxin I. P. The eight month old rats proved most resistant to the endotoxin. During fixation the aorta, carotid artery, basil arartery of the brain, coronary vessels of the heart, inner surfaces of the heart chambers, heart and skeletal muscle, lung, liver, kidney, spleen, brain, retina, trachae, intestine, salivary gland, adrenal gland and gingiva were treated with ruthenium red or alcian blue to preserve the mucopolysaccharide (MPS) coating. Five, 8 and 24 hrs of endotoxin treatment produced increasingly marked capillary damage, disappearance of the MPS coating, edema, destruction of endothelial cells and damage to the basement membrane in the liver, kidney and lung.


Author(s):  
James A. Lake

The understanding of ribosome structure has advanced considerably in the last several years. Biochemists have characterized the constituent proteins and rRNA's of ribosomes. Complete sequences have been determined for some ribosomal proteins and specific antibodies have been prepared against all E. coli small subunit proteins. In addition, a number of naturally occuring systems of three dimensional ribosome crystals which are suitable for structural studies have been observed in eukaryotes. Although the crystals are, in general, too small for X-ray diffraction, their size is ideal for electron microscopy.


Author(s):  
Manfred E. Bayer

Bacterial viruses adsorb specifically to receptors on the host cell surface. Although the chemical composition of some of the cell wall receptors for bacteriophages of the T-series has been described and the number of receptor sites has been estimated to be 150 to 300 per E. coli cell, the localization of the sites on the bacterial wall has been unknown.When logarithmically growing cells of E. coli are transferred into a medium containing 20% sucrose, the cells plasmolize: the protoplast shrinks and becomes separated from the somewhat rigid cell wall. When these cells are fixed in 8% Formaldehyde, post-fixed in OsO4/uranyl acetate, embedded in Vestopal W, then cut in an ultramicrotome and observed with the electron microscope, the separation of protoplast and wall becomes clearly visible, (Fig. 1, 2). At a number of locations however, the protoplasmic membrane adheres to the wall even under the considerable pull of the shrinking protoplast. Thus numerous connecting bridges are maintained between protoplast and cell wall. Estimations of the total number of such wall/membrane associations yield a number of about 300 per cell.


Author(s):  
John L.Beggs ◽  
John D. Waggener ◽  
Wanda Miller ◽  
Jane Watkins

Studies using mesenteric and ear chamber preparations have shown that interendothelial junctions provide the route for neutrophil emigration during inflammation. The term emigration refers to the passage of white blood cells across the endothelium from the vascular lumen. Although the precise pathway of transendo- thelial emigration in the central nervous system (CNS) has not been resolved, the presence of different physiological and morphological (tight junctions) properties of CNS endothelium may dictate alternate emigration pathways.To study neutrophil emigration in the CNS, we induced meningitis in guinea pigs by intracisternal injection of E. coli bacteria.In this model, leptomeningeal inflammation is well developed by 3 hr. After 3 1/2 hr, animals were sacrificed by arterial perfusion with 3% phosphate buffered glutaraldehyde. Tissues from brain and spinal cord were post-fixed in 1% osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in alcohols and propylene oxide, and embedded in Epon. Thin serial sections were cut with diamond knives and examined in a Philips 300 electron microscope.


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