Guieb, R. A., Jumars, P. A. & Self, R. F. L. Adhesive-based selection by a tentacle-feeding polychaete for particle size, shape and bacterial coating in silt and sand.
We pricked the sham flies first to coat the tungsten needle with hemolymph to achieve consistent bacterial coating with the infection group.
Infected C. elegans worms had the dense bacterial coating and swollen tails seen in the original JU1635 population.
In the case of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus, during the first 12 15 d of the adult phase, the worker ant integument supports an easily visible and extensive bacterial coating.
Studying mice afflicted with bronchial infections similar to those of cystic fibrosis patients, Dr. Pier found he could prompt the rodents to produce destructive antibodies by injecting them with a purified solution of a particular piece, or antigen, of the bacterial coat.
An exciting outcome could be that expression of a characteristic lectin repertoire by each stilbonematid species underpins acquisition and maintenance of a specific bacterial coat.
Here we show that in microglia, either in the resting state or when activated by the bacterial coat component lipopolysaccharide, both in acute and in cultured hippocampal slices, no significant H+ current is detectable.
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a bacterial coat component, is widely used as a potent stimulator of the innate immune system and it is recognized by a receptor complex containing fully functional TLR4 and CD14.
Here we experimentally stimulated the immune system of honey bees, Apis mellifera, by injecting bees with a solution of bacterial coat proteins, that is, lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which has the advantage of stimulating an immune response in the host without spreading any infectious agent to the healthy nestmates.
This year, among other measures, it unveiled plans for a cutting-edge system that would zap locker rooms with a decontaminating fog of hydrogen peroxide and silver to leave an anti-bacterial coating on every surface.
However, only few anti-bacterial coating technologies are currently available in orthopedics and trauma and, for various reasons, they are still far from large-scale application [17, 18].
