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The caffeine derivative 8-ethoxycaffeine (EOC) was tested in 3 different test systems in vitro. Each experiment was carried out with and without S9 mix. Incubation temperatures were 20 and 37 degrees C. (1) In the Salmonella/microsome test, EOC behaved as a pro-mutagen in the Salmonella typhimurium strain TA1535. No mutagenic activity was found in experiments without S9 mix. The influence of temperature was negligible. The mutagenic activity of EOC depended mainly on the mammals used to prepare the S9 fraction and on the agents given to them to induce liver enzymes. (2) EOC did not induce sister-chromatid exchanges in cell cultures, either at 20 or at 37 degrees C. (3) On the other hand, EOC induced chromosomal aberrations when the cells were incubated at 37 degrees C without S9 mix.  相似文献   

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The present studies were directed to examine and quantify binding and degradation of radiolabelled cholecystokinin (CCK) peptides by isolated rat liver cells. After incubation with liver cells (4.5 x 10(6) cells/ml) at 14 degrees C, minimal binding (less than 5%) of labelled CCK33 was detected. When labelled nonsulfated (nsCCK8) and sulfated CCK8 (sCCK8) were incubated, 16.2 +/- 1.8% (mean +/- S.E.) and 7.2 +/- 0.1% of 125I-nsCCK8 and 125I-sCCK8, respectively, were bound to the cell fraction. However, no inhibition of binding of either labelled nsCCK8 or sCCK8 was observed when incubated in the presence of excess unlabelled peptide (10 ng-10 micrograms). Preferential binding of labelled sCCK8, the biologically active form of the octapeptide, appeared to be to the nonparenchymal liver cell, rather than the hepatocyte, fraction; when corrected for cell size and protein content, binding of sCCK8 was approximately 15-times greater by the nonparenchymal cell population. When incubated with hepatocytes at 37 degrees C for 60 min, no degradation of labelled sCCK8 was detected by high pressure liquid chromatography. In contrast, progressive degradation of sCCK8 was observed when the peptide was incubated with the nonparenchymal cells. The results of these studies confirm previous observations that CCK33 is not bound by the liver. They further demonstrate that to some degree CCK8 is preferentially bound and degraded by hepatic nonparenchymal cells; however, this binding appears to be noncompetitive and, therefore, probably not receptor-mediated.  相似文献   

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Rat sinusoidal liver cells possess the surface receptor for high density lipoprotein (HDL) (Murakami, M., S. Horiuchi, K. Takata, and Y. Morino. 1987. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 101: 729-741). The present study was undertaken to determine whether cell surface-bound HDL underwent subsequent endocytic internalization by using 125I-labeled HDL and fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled HDL (FITC-HDL). The cell-associated radioactivity obtained by a 40-min incubation with 125I-labeled HDL at 37 degrees C was released into the medium as acid-precipitable forms upon further incubation at 37 degrees C. When further incubated at 0 degree C instead of 37 degrees C, however, this release was significantly reduced. A similar phenomenon was observed after the cell-associated ligands had been treated with trypsin. The cell-associated ligands obtained after a 1-hr incubation with 125I-labeled HDL at 0 degree C were largely counted for by those bound to the outer surface of the cells, thus suggesting that HDL is internalized into cells at 37 degrees C but not at 0 degree C. Moreover, when cells were incubated with FITC-HDL at 0 degree C, the cell-associated ligands were found in a pH 7.2 +/- 0.1 compartment, whereas when incubated at 37 degrees C, its microenvironmental pH became much more acidic, exhibiting pH 6.2 +/- 0.1. Furthermore, this value returned to 7.1 +/- 0.1 upon treatment with carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone known to dissipate the total protonomotive force. These results suggest, therefore, that the internalization process does follow receptor-mediated binding of HDL in rat sinusoidal liver cells. This notion was also supported by fluorescence microscopic observations.  相似文献   

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The biochemical basis for sulfite accumulation by sulfate-using revertants of Salmonella pullorum was determined. All of the sulfate-using mutants isolated from wild-type S. pullorum accumulated sulfite when grown at 37 but not at 25 C. The specific activity of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADPH)-dependent sulfite reductase (H 2S-NADP oxidoreductase, EC 1.8.1.2) and of reduced methyl viologen (MVH)-dependent sulfite reductase (H 2S-MV oxidoreductase), in extracts prepared from cells incubated at 37 C, declined as the incubation period lengthened. However, the specific activity of both reductases from cells incubated at 25 C did not decline. Thermolability of cell-free NADPH-dependent sulfite reductase from cells of S. pullorum incubated at 37 C was greater than the lability of this enzyme either from cells of S. typhimurium incubated at 37 C or from cells of S. pullorum incubated at 25 C. Cells cultured at 37 C continued to accumulate sulfite when the incubation temperature was shifted to 25 C; cells cultured at 25 C and shifted to 37 C accumulated no sulfite, whereas these cells shifted to 41 C accumulated sulfite. It was concluded that the configuration of the sulfite reductase of S. pullorum strain 6–18 is a function of the incubation temperature at which synthesis occurs.  相似文献   

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Growth of Bacteroidaceae in Stirred Fermentors   总被引:4,自引:2,他引:2       下载免费PDF全文
The conditions for increasing bacterial yields in cultures of Bacteroidaceae by the use of stirred fermentors and pH control were investigated by means of three representative species: Sphaerophorus necrophorus, Bacteroides fragilis, and B. melaninogenicus. A medium containing tryptone, yeast extract, and glucose or sucrose was used. Horse serum had to be added to obtain substantial growth of B. melaninogenicus. The optimal pH for growth rate and yield was 7.0 to 7.2. Lysis of the bacteria occurred when the glucose (or sucrose) was exhausted. The rate of lysis was very high in cultures of S. necrophorus, less so in B. fragilis and B. melaninogenicus. Pleomorphism, manifested as large sperical forms of the bacteria, was observed in the late logarithmic phase of S. necrophorus. Great differences in the length of the lag phase and of the mean generation time were found among the three bacterial species. The yield in static cultures of the three species without pH control was approximately 0.4 g of dry cells per liter, but was increased, in stirred fermentors with pH control, to 3.5 g (S. necrophorus), 2.7 g (B. fragilis), and 4.3 g (B. melaninogenicus) per liter. With an inoculum density of 5 to 10 mg (dry weight) per liter, these yields were obtained in approximately 10 (S. necrophorus), 25 (B. fragilis), and 35 hr (B. melaninogenicus), respectively.  相似文献   

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The temperature-sensitive events which prevent Cryptococcus albidus from growing at 37 C were investigated. Cultures incubated at 37 C immediately after inoculation did not increase in optical density nor in cell numbers, and by 24 h 90% of cells in such cultures were deformed and dead. When cultures in log phase were shifted from 23 to 37 C the optical density increased but the cell numbers did not. Morphological observations revealed that the increase in turbidity at 37 C represented enlargement and distortion of cells without appreciable replication. Uptake and incorporation of (14)C-leucine were similar at 23 and 37 C. There was no difference in (14)CO(2) evolution from cells at either temperature. Uptake and incorporation of adenine-8-(14)C into RNA was slightly lower in cells incubated at 37 C. There was, however, a 60% reduction in incorporation of adenine-8-(14)C into DNA after 3 hr at 37 C. Nuclear staining revealed that nuclear migration did not occur in cells incubated at 37 C. Thus the data indicate that both adenine incorporation into DNA and nuclear migration prior to nuclear division by C. albidus are temperature sensitive.  相似文献   

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The mutagenicity of 4,4'-bis(dimethylamino)benzophenone (Michler's ketone, MK, CAS No. 90-94-8) and 4,4'-methylenebis(N,N-dimethyl)benzamine (reduced Michler's ketone, RMK, CAS No. 101-61-1) for Salmonella typhimurium strain TA100 was compared using activated 9000 X g (S9) liver supernatants from 2 animal species. RMK, but not MK, was mutagenic when incubated with phenobarbital-induced B6D2F1 mouse or Osborne-Mendel rat-liver S9. The mutagenic response for RMK was linear at doses from 1 to 33 micrograms/plate. A higher percentage of RMK and MK became irreversibly bound to mouse-liver macromolecules than to rat-liver macromolecules when incubated at 37 degrees C in the presence of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.  相似文献   

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The present study was undertaken to establish whether molecular events leading to binding, transformation-activation, and nuclear translocation of cytoplasmic uterine estrogen receptor described for cell-free systems also occur in intact uterine cells. Cell suspensions were incubated at 0 degrees C or 37 degrees C with estradiol (E2) and specific binding to intracellular receptors was measured. The data demonstrate that saturation of specific estrogen binding sites occurs within 60 min at 37 degrees C and within 22 h at 0 degrees C, with a total of approximately 24,000 to 30,000 receptor sites per cell. At equilibrium, the total number and subcellular distribution of receptor . estradiol (R . E2) complexes formed in cells incubated at 0 degrees C or 37 degrees C were identical. Scatchard analysis of the equilibrium binding data yielded the same association constants for cytoplasmic and nuclear R . E2 formed in intact cells incubated at either temperature. Sucrose density gradient analysis of nuclear and cytoplasmic R . E2 formed in intact cells at 0 degrees C or 37 degrees C showed that at both temperatures, the nuclear R . E2 had a 5 S sedimentation coefficient; at both temperatures, a 5 S cytosol R . E2 was detected; only in the 0 degrees C incubation, an additional 4 S cytosol R . E2 was found. These results suggest that the molecular interactions regulating the dynamics of estrogen binding in the intact cell are similar at both physiological and low temperatures.  相似文献   

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Fungal metabolism and detoxification of fluoranthene.   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Five metabolites produced by Cunninghamella elegans from fluoranthene (FA) in biotransformation studies were investigated for mutagenic activity towards Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and TA104. Whereas FA displayed positive, dose-related mutagenic responses in both tester strains in the presence of a rat liver homogenate fraction, 3-FA-beta-glucopyranoside, 3-(8-hydroxy-FA)-beta-glucopyranoside, FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, and 8-hydroxy-FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol were negative. 9-Hydroxy-FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol showed a weak positive response in S. typhimurium TA100. Mutagenicity assays performed with samples extracted at 24-h intervals during incubation of C. elegans with FA for 120 h showed that mutagenic activity decreased with time. Comparative studies with rat liver microsomes indicated that FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, the previously identified proximal mutagenic metabolite of FA, was the major metabolite. The circular dichroism spectrum of the rat liver microsomal FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol indicated that it was optically active. In contrast, the circular dichroism spectrum of the fungal FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol showed no optical activity. These results indicate that C. elegans has the potential to detoxify FA and that the stereochemistry of its trans-2,3-dihydrodiol metabolite reduces its mutagenic potential.  相似文献   

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Ruminant products are the major source of CLA for humans. However, during periods of fat mobilization, the liver might play an important role in CLA metabolism which would limit the availability of the latter for muscles and milk. In this context, rumenic acid (cis-9, trans-11 CLA) metabolism in the bovine liver (n = 5) was compared to that of oleic acid (n = 3) by using the in vitro liver slice method. Liver slices were incubated for 17 h in a medium containing 0.75 mM of FA mixture and 55 microM of either [1-(14)C] rumenic acid or [1-(14)C] oleic acid at 37 degrees C under an atmosphere of 95% O(2)-5% CO(2). Rumenic acid uptake by liver slices was twice (P = 0.009) that of oleic acid. Hepatic oxidation of both FA (> 50% of incorporated FA) led essentially to the production of acid-soluble products and to a lower extent to CO(2) production. Rumenic acid was partly converted (> 12% of incorporated rumenic acid) into conjugated C18:3. CLA and its conjugated derivatives were mainly esterified into polar lipids (71.7%), whereas oleic acid was preferentially esterified into neutral lipids (59.8%). Rumenic acid secretion as part of VLDL particles was very low and was one-fourth lower than that of oleic acid. In conclusion, rumenic acid was highly metabolized by bovine hepatocytes, especially by the oxidation pathway and by its conversion into conjugated C18:3 for which the biological properties need to be elucidated.  相似文献   

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Fungal metabolism and detoxification of fluoranthene.   总被引:6,自引:4,他引:2       下载免费PDF全文
Five metabolites produced by Cunninghamella elegans from fluoranthene (FA) in biotransformation studies were investigated for mutagenic activity towards Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and TA104. Whereas FA displayed positive, dose-related mutagenic responses in both tester strains in the presence of a rat liver homogenate fraction, 3-FA-beta-glucopyranoside, 3-(8-hydroxy-FA)-beta-glucopyranoside, FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, and 8-hydroxy-FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol were negative. 9-Hydroxy-FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol showed a weak positive response in S. typhimurium TA100. Mutagenicity assays performed with samples extracted at 24-h intervals during incubation of C. elegans with FA for 120 h showed that mutagenic activity decreased with time. Comparative studies with rat liver microsomes indicated that FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, the previously identified proximal mutagenic metabolite of FA, was the major metabolite. The circular dichroism spectrum of the rat liver microsomal FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol indicated that it was optically active. In contrast, the circular dichroism spectrum of the fungal FA trans-2,3-dihydrodiol showed no optical activity. These results indicate that C. elegans has the potential to detoxify FA and that the stereochemistry of its trans-2,3-dihydrodiol metabolite reduces its mutagenic potential.  相似文献   

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The simian papovavirus SV40 replicated as well in simian cells incubated at 41 C as in cells incubated at 37 C, although the latent period was shortened at the elevated temperature. Human adenoviruses differed in their responses to the elevated temperature. Some serotypes, such as 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 16, and 21, replicated as well, or almost as efficiently, in human cells incubated at 41 C as in cells incubated at 37 C, whereas with other serotypes, such as 1, 2, 6, 12, and 14, maximal yields in cultures incubated at 41 C were much lower than the yields from companion cultures incubated at 37 C. This difference was also detected in simian cells co-infected with SV40 and a human adenovirus; maximal complementation occurred with some serotypes at the elevated temperature but not with other serotypes. The degree of complementation observed in the simian cells at 41 C was directly correlated with the ability of the adenovirus to replicate at 41 C in human cells. Therefore, the capacity of SV40 to serve as a helper virus is not affected by the elevated temperature, showing that the complementation event supplied by the simian virus is heat-stable between 37 and 41 C. Maximal complementation appeared to depend upon a characteristic present in the adenovirus genome.  相似文献   

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Summary The changes in Na current during development were studied in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cells using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. Cells obtained from rats 1–3 and 5–8 days after birth were cultured and their Na currents were compared. On top of the two types of Na currents reported in these cells (fast-FA current and slow-S current) a new fast current was found (FN). The main characteristics of the three currents are: (i) The voltages of activation are –37, –36, and –23 mV for the FN, FA and S currents, respectively. (ii) The activation and inactivation kinetics of FN and FA currents are about five times faster than those of the S current. (iii) The voltages at which inactivation reaches 50% are –139, –75 and –23 mV for the FN, FA and S currents, respectively.The kinetics and voltage-dependent parameters of the three currents and their density do not change during the first eight days after birth. However, their relative frequency in the cells changes. In the 1–3 day-old rats the precent of cells with S, FA, and mixed S+FN currents is 22, 18, and 60% of the cells, respectively. In the 5–8 day-old, the percent of cells with S, FA, and FN+S is 10, 66 and 22%. The relative increase in the frequency of cells with FA current during development can contribute to the ease of action potential generation compared with cells with FN currents, which are almost completely inactivated under physiological conditions. The predominance of FA cells also results in a significant decrease in the relative frequency of cells with the high-threshold, slow current.Antibodies directed against a part of the S4 region of internal repeat I of the sodium channel (C 1 + , amino acids 210–223, eel channel numbering) were found to shift the voltage dependence of FA current inactivation (but not of FN or S currents) to more negative potentials. The effect was found only when the antibodies were applied externally. The results suggest that FN, FA and S types of Na currents are generated by channels, which are different in the topography of the C 1 + region in the membrane.  相似文献   

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Cells harvested from Fanconi anemia (FA) patients show an increased hypersensitivity to the multifunctional DNA damaging agent mitomycin C (MMC), which causes cross-links in DNA as well as 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) adducts indicative of escalated oxidative DNA damage. We show here that the Drosophila multifunctional S3 cDNA, which encodes an N-glycosylase/apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lyase activity was found to correct the FA Group A (FA(A)) and FA Group C (FA(C)) sensitivity to MMC and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Furthermore, the Drosophila S3 cDNA was shown to protect AP endonuclease deficient E. coli cells against H(2)O(2) and MMC, and also protect 8-oxoG repair deficient mutM E. coli strains against MMC and H2O2 cell toxicity. Conversely, the human S3 protein failed to complement the AP endonuclease deficient E. coli strain, most likely because it lacks N-glycosylase activity for the repair of oxidatively-damaged DNA bases. Although the human S3 gene is clearly not the genetic alteration in FA cells, our results suggest that oxidative DNA damage is intimately involved in the overall FA phenotype, and the cytotoxic effect of selective DNA damaging agents in FA cells can be overcome by trans-complementation with specific DNA repair cDNAs. Based on these findings, we would predict other oxidative repair proteins, or oxidative scavengers, could serve as protective agents against the oxidative DNA damage that occurs in FA.  相似文献   

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The influence of copper deficiency on the binding and uptake of apolipoprotein E-free high density lipoprotein (apo E-free HDL) in cultured rat hepatic parenchymal cells was examined in this study. Male weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into two treatments, a Cu-adequate (7.33 mg Cu/kg diet) or a Cu-deficient (1.04 mg Cu/kg diet) group. After 7 weeks, plasma apo E-free HDL were isolated by a combination of ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, and heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography. Parenchymal cells were isolated from collagenase perfused liver of Cu-deficient and adequate rats and cultured for 16 hours at 37 degrees C prior to incubation with iodinated apo E-free HDL from the same treatment group. Cells were incubated with 5 microg/ml(125) I-apo E-free HDL for 2, 6, or 12 hours in the presence or absence of 200 microg/ml (40-fold) excess unlabeled apo E-free HDL. Increases in specific binding at 4 degrees C and specific cell-associated uptake at 37 degrees C as a function of time were observed with cells and HDL from Cu-deficient rats. Cells were also incubated for 6 hours with 8 concentrations of (125)I-apo E-free HDL in the presence or absence of excess unlabeled HDL. Although no significant increase in specific binding was detected at 4 degrees C as a function of ligand concentration, the response tended to be higher at 5 to 15 microg HDL/ml for the Cu-deficient treatment. However, at 37 degrees C the specific cell-associated uptake was increased markedly with cells and HDL from Cu-deficient rats. The observed increases in HDL binding and uptake indicate that these processes may be enhanced in Cu-deficient rats. These data are also consistent with recent in vivo results which indicate that plasma clearance and tissue uptake of HDL are increased in Cu-deficient rats.  相似文献   

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In an effort to produce ricinoleic acid (12-hydroxy-octadeca-cis-9-enoic acid: C18:1-OH) as a petrochemical replacement in a variety of industrial processes, we introduced Claviceps purpurea oleate ?12-hydroxylase gene (CpFAH12) to Schizosaccharomyces pombe, putting it under the control of inducible nmt1 promoter. Since Fah12p is able to convert oleic acid to ricinoleic acid, we thought that S. pombe, in which around 75% of total fatty acid (FA) is oleic acid, would accordingly be an ideal microorganism for high production of ricinoleic acid. Unfortunately, at the normal growth temperature of 30 °C, S. pombe cells harboring CpFAH12 grew poorly when the CpFAH12 gene expression was induced, perhaps implicating ricinoleic acid as toxic in S. pombe. However, in line with a likely thermoinstability of Fah12p, there was almost no growth inhibition at 37 °C or, by contrast with 30 °C and lower temperatures, ricinoleic acid accumulation. Accordingly, various optimization steps led to a regime with preliminary growth at 37 °C followed by a 5-day incubation at 20 °C, and the level of ricinoleic acid reached 137.4 μg/ml of culture that corresponded to 52.6% of total FA.  相似文献   

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When hepatocytes were freshly isolated from rat liver and incubated for various periods of time at 37 degrees C, the media from the incubation, when completely separated from the cells, actively degraded 125I-insulin. THis soluble protease activity was strongly inhibited by bacitracin but was unaffected by the lysosomatropic agent ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). When hepatocytes were incubated with 125I-insulin at 37 degrees C in the presence or absence of 8 mM NH4Cl the ligand initially bound to the plasma membrane and was subsequently internalized as a function of time. When hepatocytes were incubated at 37 degrees C for 30 minutes with 125I-insulin in the presence of bacitracin and NH4Cl or bacitracin alone and the cells were washed, diluted, and the cell-bound radioactivity allowed to dissociate, the percent intact 125I-insulin in the cell pellet and in the incubation media was greater in the presence of NH4Cl at each time point of incubation. Under these same conditions a higher proportion of the cell-associated radioactivity was internalized and a higher proportion was associated with lysosomes. The data suggest that receptor-mediated internalization is required for insulin degradation by the cell, and that this process, at least in part, involves lysosomal enzymes. Furthermore, the data demonstrate that internalization is not blocked by the presence of bacitracin or NH4Cl in the incubation media, but that degradation is inhibited.  相似文献   

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This large-scale study compared incubation temperatures (37°C versus 42°C) to study the detection of thermophilic Campylobacter species, including Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, and C. lari, in various surface water samples and bird fecal droppings around Hamilton Harbor, Lake Ontario. The putative culture isolates obtained from incubation temperatures of 37 and 42°C were confirmed by Campylobacter genus- and species-specific triplex PCR assays targeting the 16S rRNA gene and the 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. A total of 759 water, wastewater, and bird fecal dropping samples were tested. Positive amplification reactions for the genus Campylobacter were found for 454 (60%) samples incubated at 37°C, compared to 258 (34%) samples incubated at 42°C. C. jejuni (16%) and C. lari (12%) were detected significantly more frequently at the 42°C incubation temperature than at 37°C (8% and 5%, respectively). In contrast, significantly higher rates of C. coli (14%) and other Campylobacter spp. (36%) were detected at the 37°C incubation temperature than at 42°C (8% and 7%, respectively). These results were consistent across surface water, wastewater, and bird fecal dropping samples. At times, Campylobacter spp. were recovered and detected at 37°C (3% for C. jejuni, 10% for C. coli, and 3% for C. lari) when the same samples incubated at 42°C were negative. A significantly higher rate of other Campylobacter spp. was detected only at 37°C (32%) than only at 42°C (3%). These results indicate that incubation temperature can significantly influence the culturability and detection of thermophilic and other fastidious Campylobacter spp. and that a comprehensive characterization of the Campylobacter spp. in surface water, wastewaters, or bird fecal droppings will require incubation at both 37 and 42°C.  相似文献   

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