Human cell exposure assays of Bacillus thuringiensis commercial insecticides: Production of Bacillus cereus-like cytolytic effects from outgrowth of spores

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 919-930

  Tayabali, Azam F ^a   Seligy, Verner L ^a,b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

35S methionine; Biopesticides; Bioreduction; Cell death; Cytolytic factors; Endotoxin; Immune sensitization; Immunodetection; Vegetative cells

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; CELL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SHAPE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOSENSOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033693322     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108919     Document Type: Article

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