(1) AS101 [ammonium-trichloro (0,0' dioxyethylene)tellurate] is a new immunomodulator shown previously to stimulate the production of various cytokines in vitro and in vivo, and to have minimal toxicity.
(2) Transferable plasmids in gram-negative bacteria that confer resistance to potassium tellurite or tellurate were found.
(3) The identity of some selenite-resistant isolates and MICs of selenite, selenate, arsenate, tellurite, and tellurate were determined.
(4) A detailed analytical study made on samples of Spirulines algae of various origins showed that these microorganisms may present an important telluric contamination, especially demonstrated by high levels of fluorine and arsenic they contain.
(5) It seems that prevalence differences are less dependent upon the telluric elimate than upon other factors, which remain to find.
(6) The acquisition of pMER610 by AB1157 increased the resistance to both telurite and tellurate by 100-fold.
(7) In a search for compounds active against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), it was found that the novel low-molecular weight immunoenhancer ammonium trichloro(dioxyethylene-O,O'-) tellurate (AS101) suppresses production of HIV-1 in vitro.
(8) Seven preprarations, sodium chromate (Na251CrO4), chromium chloride (51CrCl3), normal ammonium molybdate ((NH4)299MoO7), sodium tungstate (Na2181WO4), sodium selenate (Na275SeO4), sodium selenite (Na275SeO3) and tellurous acid (H2127mTeO3) were injected intravenously to each group of tumor bearing rats.
(9) AS101 [ammonium trichloro (dioxyethylene-o-o') tellurate] has been reported to stimulate normal mouse and human lymphoid cells to proliferate and to produce lymphokines such as interleukin-2 (IL-2) and colony-stimulating factor (CSF), regulators of lymphopoiesis and myelopoiesis.
(10) A numerical analysis was carried out from a set of 165 telluric Gram-negative bacterial strains.
(11) Ammonium trichloro(dioxyethylene-O-O')tellurate (AS101) is a new synthetic compound previously described by us as having immunomodulating properties and minimal toxicity.
(12) It was given as sodium tellurate, sodium tellurite, metallic colloid and intrinsically bound in cress.
(13) Many, but not all, of the plasmids belong to incompatibility group S. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, tellurium resistance is specifically associated with incompatibility group P-2 and involves a 5- to 10-fold increase in tellurite or tellurate resistance.
(14) AS-101 (ammonium trichloro[dioxoethylene-O,O'-]tellurate) is a newly developed synthetic compound with immunomodulating properties and minimal toxicity.
(15) This is a lower saprophytic fungus of decaying vegetable and telluric matter.
(16) It can be expected that broadened serological search for the FI antigen of plague will prove useful in the study of the structure of natural foci of plague, in the reconnaissance or retrospective investigation of poorly explored territories and in the solution of some questions concerning the epizootiology of plague, such as the survival of the infectious agent in the inter-epizootic period, telluric plague, etc.
(17) B), a polyene heptaene, is an antifungal antibiotic substance produced by Streptomyces nodosus, a telluric actinomycetal from Venezuela.
(18) In Zaire, nutritional diet and telluric contact seem to be very important.
(19) Superinfection by atypical Mycobacterium of telluric extraction is considered.
(20) H. capsulatum is a telluric fungus and man is contaminated from soil to his respiratory tract.
Tellurite
Definition:
(n.) A salt of tellurous acid.
(n.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cell-free extracts of Thermus thermophilus HB8 catalyze the in vitro, NADH-dependent reduction of potassium tellurite (K2TeO3).
(2) Three different protein fractions with tellurite-reducing activities were identified.
(3) Transferable plasmids in gram-negative bacteria that confer resistance to potassium tellurite or tellurate were found.
(4) We have identified intrinsic high-level resistance (HLR) to tellurite, selenite, and at least 15 other rare-earth oxides and oxyanions in the facultative photoheterotroph Rhodobacter sphaeroides grown either chemoheterotrophically or photoheterotrophically.
(5) Unstained, unfixed bacteria carrying these plasmids contained black intracellular deposits when grown on media containing tellurite.
(6) Mitis salivarius agar (MS) and higher recovery values than modified medium 10 (MM10SB), Trypticase-yeast extract-cystine medium (TYC), or MS with 1% tellurite (MST).
(7) Chemical and biophysical mechanisms underlying the thiol-dependent lytic action of tellurite (and selenite) on human erythrocytes were investigated using native and GSH-depleted cells.
(8) The most stable differential signs of enterococci are: growth in the medium at pH 10.2, growth in broth containing 40% bile, citrate utilization, resistance to 0,05% potassium tellurite, 2, 3, 5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) reduction, the staining of colonies (plaques) on a medium with manganese, iron and zinc salts, glycerine fermentation under anaerobic conditions, mannite fermentation, the presence of hemolysin, of the proteolytic enzyme, and mobility.
(9) M. phocacerebrale (13 strains) metabolized arginine but not glucose and produced phosphatase but did not reduce tetrazolium chloride and potassium tellurite.
(10) Doses of mixed intestinal gram-negative bacilli and enterococci were most effectively inhibited by Snyder tellurite agar.
(11) For instance, a correlation was found between the antigenic structure of the organism and the colonial appearance on tellurite blood agar.
(12) The identity of some selenite-resistant isolates and MICs of selenite, selenate, arsenate, tellurite, and tellurate were determined.
(13) By contrast, the lytic plaques produced by phages on rapidly growing mycobacteria with strong tellurite reactivity always display a sharp line of demarcation between the plaque and the non-lysed culture.The studies described in the present paper have shown that the tellurite zonal phenomenon provides a reliable criterion for the differentiation of slowly growing mycobacteria.
(14) The genes encoding tellurite resistance, colicin B resistance, and phage inhibition were found to be associated with a 6.7-kb SalI fragment of R478.
(15) Immuno-gold labelling and lysis studies using pilH alpha, a bacteriophage specific for H pili, were used to investigate transfer-deficient mutants of pHH1508a obtained by Tn5 mutagenesis and an in vitro constructed derivative of 96 kilobases, pDT1178, which also conferred resistance to potassium tellurite, trimethoprim, and streptomycin.
(16) The normally silent 4.5 kb tellurite resistance transposon Tn521 of RP4 has been shown to carry sequences from both the flanking kilA and korA loci of this broad host range plasmid.
(17) fermentation of sorbitol, glycerol (anaerobic) and melezitose, tolerance to potassium tellurite (0.1%) (positive for Strep.
(18) On a simple delayed response task, the performance of the tellurite-treated animals was more consistent than that of the buffer-treated animals.
(19) This assay is suitable for studying tellurite uptake in bacteria and overcomes the problems of older techniques which are time consuming and labor intensive.
(20) The tellurite resistance (Ter) determinant of RP4 is not normally expressed unless variants are selected on medium containing tellurite.