| Literature DB >> 8418058 |
I M Orme1, S K Furney, P S Skinner, A D Roberts, P J Brennan, D G Russell, H Shiratsuchi, J J Ellner, W Y Weiser.
Abstract
Infections caused by Mycobacterium avium, the most common form of diseminated bacterial disease in AIDS patients, are difficult to treat because of their resistance to many antimycobacterial drugs. The results of the present study show that recombinant migration inhibitory factor, a 12-kDa molecule recently isolated by COS-1 cell expression screening of cDNA from a human T-cell hybridoma, has potent inhibitory activity on the growth of a panel of clinical isolates of M. avium within both bone-marrow-derived murine macrophages and cultured human blood monocytes. These cells cultured in recombinant migration inhibitory factor exhibit various signs of activation, including cell division, morphological changes such as evidence of substantial phagolysosomal fusion, and enhanced secretion of tumor necrosis factor.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8418058 PMCID: PMC302726 DOI: 10.1128/iai.61.1.338-342.1993
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441