Cholera enterotoxin (choleragen).
Cholera enterotoxin (choleragen).
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霍乱肠毒素(choleragen)。
DOI:
10.1016/0163-7258(85)90063-4
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
Dorner,F
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文献类型:
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作者:
Finkelstein,RA;Dorner,F
The many reports and observations that have led to the current state of knowledge of cholera toxin have been summarized extensively elsewhere (Pollitzer, 1959; Finkelstein, 1973, 1975. 1976, 1981, 1984; Barua and Burrows, 1974; Bennett and Cuatrecasas, 1977; Gill, 1978; Moss and Vaughan, 1979; Ouchterlony and Holmgren, 1980; Holmgren, 1981; Giannella, 1981; Gill, 1982; S. van Heyningen, 1982; Moss and Vaughan, 1982; van Heyningen and Seal, 1983). For this reason this review will be confined primarily to a general description as well as a summary of recent progress in cholera research. Cholera toxin was' discovered'nearly 75 years after Koch's prediction, in the late 19th century (see Pollitzer, 1959), that cholera is a toxin-mediated disease. Reasonable data to support this prediction first became available in 1959 when two Indian researchers, working independently of one another, showed that cell-free preparations from Vibrio cholerae caused relevant symptomatology in animal models which they had developed (De, 1959; Dutta et al., 1959). One model was the adult rabbit ligated ileal loop (De and Chatterje, 1953) which responded to sterile culture filtrates of an unidentified Ogawa serotype strain of V. cholerae with luminal fluid accumulation which suggested'enterotoxicity'(De, t959). The other model (Dutta and Habbu, 1955) was the infant rabbit which, when fed multiple doses of sterile lysates of heavy suspensions of the 569B Inaba strain of V. cholerae (Durra et al., 1959), responded with fatal choleraic diarrhea. By 1964 it had been demonstrated that enterotoxic activity could be produced routinely and optimally by growing strain 569B Inaba with vigorous aeration in synthetic culture medium (Finkelstein and Lankford, 1955) supplemented with casamino acids (Finkelstein et al., 1964). The putative cholera enterotoxin, which was shown not to be the cholera endotoxin, was then named choleragen--now an accepted synonym (Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 1972; Dorland's Medical Dictionary, 1974) for cholera toxin (CT) or cholera enterotoxin.In subsequent years, as an outgrowth of basic research on cholera and the resulting increased understanding of its pathophysiology, a simple, economical and effective treatment regimen for diarrheal disease has been developed--oral rehydration therapy (ORT)(World Health Organization, 1983). Regarded as potentially the most important medical advance of the century, ORT will save countless millions of lives in the decade of the 1980s alone. However, completely satisfactory methods of preventing the disease or of interrupting its progress, when it occurs, remain to be developed.