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Example sentences for: antimicrobial
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A key feature of the pathogenicity of M. tuberculosis is its ability to evade the antimicrobial processes of the macrophage and replicate intracellularly.
Other genes in the region include those for the cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (near D1S2616), an innate microbial defense peptide expressed by the skin during inflammation; MARK (near D1S2641), a serine/threonine protein kinase; and at least three uncharacterized genes.
In contrast, peripheral blood macrophages not exposed to RANKL may be more responsive to the macrophage-activating immunoregulatory effects of IFN-γ, and may thus be better suited for antimicrobial activities.
Selective pressure by antimicrobial drugs is by far the most important driving force for the development of such resistance.
In order to measure the ability of LPS and lipid A to bind PG-1, we modified the two stage radial diffusion assay so that we could ascertain the amount of LPS or lipid A (in ng), that reduced the antimicrobial activity of 50 ng of PG-1 by 50 percent (called the effective concentration 50% or EC 50 ). Briefly, 2.5 μl of a 20 μg/ml PG-1 solution and 2.5 μl of LPS or lipid A (at various concentrations based on their dry weight) were combined, and added to the radial diffusion wells.