Cytokine mRNA levels were assessed in Burkholderia pseudomallei-susceptible BALB/c mice and B. pseudomallei-resistant C57BL/6 mice following administration of a sublethal dose of less virulent (LV) B. pseudomallei, a candidate immunogen tested for protection against a highly virulent (HV) challenge. Compared on the basis of the bacterial loads, the cytokine patterns induced by HV and LV B. pseu...

Supplementation with mushroom-derived active hexose correlated compound (AHCC) modulates immunity and increases survival in response to a broad spectrum of acute infections, including influenza virus infection. However, dose-response data are nonexistent. Therefore, the aims of this study were to evaluate AHCC supplementation at various doses and determine the effects of low-dose supplementatio...

BACKGROUND Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, transmits the causal bacteria of the devastating citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB). Because of the variation in spatial and temporal uptake and systemic distribution of imidacloprid applied to citrus trees and its degradation over time in citrus trees, ACP adults and nymphs are exposed to concentrations that may not cause immedi...

Abstract The nettle caterpillar, Setothosea asigna , is a major pest in an oil palm plantation North Sumatra, which causes severe defoliation and reduces productivity. Controlling this commonly uses Pyrethroids insecticides, but dimehypo was also used when controlling bagworms caterpillars the exact location. sublethal doses were reported to decrease mortality. study aimed determine effect of o...

In the present investigation live specimens of Channa punctatus were collected, after acclimatization they were chronically exposed to sublethal concentrations of mercuric chloride for 15 and 30 days. As compared to the control fish, Mercury treated fish kidney showed marked histopathological changes. After 15 days the alterations detected initially were the widening of space between the capsul...

the effect of the fungus, metarhizium anisopliae, sub-lethal dose of imidacloprid, the aphid, myzus persicae and the three canola cultivars under microcosm conditions inside plastic cages in greenhouse (27 ± 3°c, rh 90 ± 5 %) indicated that field and semi-field concentrations of the fungus significantly reduced the population of green peach aphid (gpa) as well as in combination with lc10 of imi...

Using an in vitro cytotoxicity assay based on the release of 51Cr from cultured porcine thoracic aortic and pulmonary arterial endothelial cells, we have demonstrated that cotton bracts tannin is a potent endothelial cell cytotoxin. It produces dose-dependent lethal injury to both types of endothelial cells with the aortic cells being somewhat more sensitive to tannin-mediated injury than the p...