| Literature DB >> 4725697 |
E T Rietschel, Y B Kim, D W Watson, C Galanos, O Lüderitz, O Westphal.
Abstract
The lipid A component of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins), when complexed to bovine serum albumin (BSA) or human serum albumin (HSA), was shown to be a potent pyrogen. Furthermore, rabbits could be protected against endotoxin fever by immunization with both lipid A.BSA and lipid A.HSA complexes. The results presented in this paper show that lipid A is responsible for the pyrogenic activity of endotoxins and their ability to induce pyrogenic immunity.Entities:
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Year: 1973 PMID: 4725697 PMCID: PMC422829 DOI: 10.1128/iai.8.2.173-177.1973
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441