white-footed mice
New infectious spirochete isolated from short tailed shrews and white footed mice
... A spirochete with two periplasmic flagella was isolated from the blood or tissues of spleens and kidneys from short-tailed shrews Blarina brevicauda and white-footed mice Peromyscus leuc[r] ...
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Reservoir Targeted Vaccine for Lyme Borreliosis Induces a Yearlong, Neutralizing Antibody Response to OspA in White-Footed Mice
... protected mice from systemic infection with ...38). Mice immunized with OspA produce antibodies that target spirochetes in the gut of the tick vector, thereby blocking transmission to the ...OspA-immunized ...
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Infection with Agents of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, Lyme Disease, and Babesiosis in Wild White Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Connecticut
... White-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, were captured in southern Connecticut during 1997 and 1998 to determine the prevalence of infections caused by granulocytic Ehrlichia ...50 mice ...
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Differential spirochetal infectivities to vector ticks of mice chronically infected by the agent of Lyme disease
... the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) appears to be the most important reservoir host for the agent of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) (1, 10, 13, 16, 21) as well as the principal host for the ...
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Novel Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes dentatus ticks feeding on humans
... Seven cultures of Borrelia burgdorferi differing from strains B31 and ZS7 were identified from among 99 isolates from Ixodes scapularis ticks and from white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and 1 ...
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Wildlife Use of Native Warm-season Grass and Non-native Cool-season Grass Forage Fields.
... House mice and white-footed mice are omnivorous and largely considered habitat generalists; therefore, plant community composition likely is of less importance to these species than it is to ...
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White-footed Mouse and Invertebrate Associations with Logging Residue: Informing Potential Wood Bioenergy Markets in the Southern Appalachians.
... between mice and residual logging debris should help inform sustainability practices should a wood bioenergy market arise in the ...decrease white-footed mice abundance, especially at sites ...
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Molecular linkage of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome to the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus: genetic characterization of the M genome of New York virus.
... We have shown that a pathogenic hantavirus, designated NY, occurs in white-footed mice (P. leucopus) in New York and that NY is virtually identical to RI-1, a virus implicated in a fatal case of HPS. ...
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Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi in urine of Peromyscus leucopus by inhibition enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... Results for the 15 white-footed mice born and reared to adulthood in the laboratory were negative by culture work, tests for serum antibodies, and the urine antigen assay.. However, one [r] ...
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Giving Up Densities of Small Mammal Granivores and Their Foraging Behaviors
... on white-footed mice showed that the mean GUDs from open shelters were at least two times higher than the mean GUDs from covered shelters (Wolf and Batzli ...
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Clinically relevant intronic splicing enhancer mutation in myelin proteolipid protein leads to progressive microglia and astrocyte activation in white and gray matter regions of the brain
... PLP-ISEdel mice were found to limit the exploration of the open field primarily to the edges of the ...PLP-ISEdel mice had a deficit in visual ...PLP-ISEdel mice, no significant difference was found ...
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Leptin Causes the Early Inhibition of Glycolysis and TCA Cycle Related Genes in the Brain of Ob/Ob Mice to Restore Fertility
... leptin-deficient mice (B6.V-Lep ob/J, designated as ob/ob mice) and five isogenic lean ovulatory littermates (wild-type) were obtained from the Center for the Develop- ment of Experimental Models, Federal ...
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Sex differences in sympathetic innervation and browning of white adipose tissue of mice
... into white and brown adipose tissue [1]. A main physiological role of white adipose tissue (WAT) is to buffer fluctuat- ing energy supply, while brown adipose tissue (BAT) is specialized for non-shivering ...
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Overexpression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase suppresses features of allergic asthma in mice
... Airway inflammation is the key factor in the pathogenesis of asthmatic disease [55]. Besides other inflammatory cells, the eosinophil is thought to be one of the major effector cells in asthma. In the present study we ...
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CXCR7 antagonism prevents axonal injury during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis as revealed by in vivoaxial diffusivity
... Recent data examining the dynamic expression of the chemokine CXCL12 at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) indicate that activity of CXCR7, a CXCL12 receptor that sequesters the chemokine intracellularly [9-11], is criti- cal ...
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Prdm16 determines the thermogenic program of subcutaneous white adipose tissue in mice
... transgenic mice compared with WT animals (Figure ...transgenic mice may have been insufficient to stimulate nerve ...WT mice expressed a differentiation- linked brown fat–like gene program ex vivo; ...
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Biosafety Analysis of Bacillus Thuringiensis Toxin Using Immunopathological Approach in Balb/C Mice
... All mice were euthenized by making them inhale EDTA briefly and then whole blood samples taken via cardiac ...in white blood cell differential count (blood smear) on slides to be able to determine the ...
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Prolonged Gray Matter Disease without Demyelination Caused by Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus with a Mutation in VP2 Puff B
... in mice, ...Most mice infected with GDVII virus die within 10 days (43), and the virus has never been isolated from the rare survivor ...the mice survive the acute phase and progress to develop a ...
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Differences in Affinity of Binding of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Strains to the Cellular Receptor α-Dystroglycan Correlate with Viral Tropism and Disease Kinetics
... the white pulp was virtually unin- fected by either of these reassortant ...the white pulp of the spleen, indicating that the tropism for this area of the spleen maps to the S RNA of Traub and Cl ...point, ...
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Caught flat footed: podocyte damage and the molecular bases of focal glomerulosclerosis
... helped define the region of the inser- tional membrane of the SD as a major locus of podocyte function. A break- through that has renewed interest in glomerular biology and pathology was the discovery of a membrane pro- ...
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