Pathological effect of synthetic cereulide, an emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, is reversible in mice

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-120

  Yokoyama, Keiko ^a   Ito, Masafumi ^a   Agata, Norio ^b   Isobe, Minoru ^c   Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Horii, Toshinobu ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Cereulide; Microsteatosis; Prognosis; Regeneration of liver

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STEATOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DEPSIPEPTIDES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032923238     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(99)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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