or allow bacteria to dwell within protected niches inside the eukaryotic cell. Two types of toxins have been recognized: (1) endotoxins that are integral parts of the bacterium, and (2) exotoxins that ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Bacterial endotoxin is a potent inflammatory stimulator, the local and systemic responses thereby elicited being mediated via the release of cytokines from diverse cell types. Under ...

Endotoxins, the lipopolysaccharides in the cell wall of small bacteria, are released when the bacteria have disintegrated; their hydrophobic nature draws them to common plastic labware ...

Endotoxins are dangerous substances produced by many types of bacteria, but current methods to detect them are time consuming and expensive. Now, researchers have developed a convenient platform ...

Studies of endotoxin and atopy, endotoxin and asthma, and farming and asthma are considered and, in each instance, a distinction is made between evidence of primary causation and evidence of secondary ...

As soon as the bacteria entered the bloodstream, unleashing the poisonous endotoxin, the body began responding on its own. White blood cells, the hunter-killers of the immune system, locked onto ...

A study was undertaken to determine whether intrinsic MT protects against acute inflammatory lung injury induced by bacterial endotoxin in MT-I/II knock out (−/− ... After LPS challenge, MT deficiency ...

The novel Sievers Eclipse BET platform reduces endotoxin assay setup time by as much as 85% and decreases the use of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) reagent by up to 90%. At the same time ...

In obesity, however, the wall of the gut can become impaired and leaky, allowing the release of these bacterial fragments into the blood ... how significant weight loss may help to reverse the amount ...