Agar

A complex sulfated polymer of galactose units, extracted from Gelidium cartilagineum, Gracilaria confervoides, and related red algae. It is used as a gel in the preparation of solid culture media for microorganisms, as a bulk laxative, in making emulsions, and as a supporting medium for immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis.

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1.	Guan, Xin-Yuan: 13 articles (10/2015 - 06/2004)
2.	Li, Yan: 10 articles (10/2015 - 02/2003)
3.	Dong, Zigang: 10 articles (10/2015 - 04/2002)
4.	Liu, Jie: 9 articles (08/2009 - 07/2002)
5.	Chen, Leilei: 7 articles (01/2015 - 05/2010)
6.	Bode, Ann M: 7 articles (12/2012 - 01/2006)
7.	Xie, Dan: 7 articles (08/2012 - 06/2004)
8.	Stonik, Valentin A: 7 articles (07/2012 - 01/2006)
9.	Cho, Yong-Yeon: 6 articles (10/2015 - 03/2007)
10.	Fu, Li: 6 articles (10/2015 - 11/2007)

Related Diseases

1.	Infection 11/06/2010 - "In flocks and herds with a high initial prevalence of infection, the adoption of an indirect ELISA, with greater sensitivity than the agar gel immunodiffusion test, improved success rates. " 04/01/2000 - "monocytogenes are non-haemolytic on blood agar plates and demonstrate a significant reduction of virulence in the mouse model of infection. " 06/01/1995 - "A major problem in establishing chronic lung infection models is the rapid clearance of bacteria instilled into the drugs; this can be overcome by encasing bacteria into agar beads to restrict phagocytosis. " 11/01/1975 - "NSU chocolate agar is superior to other agar media for the isolation of pathogenic and saprophytic bacteria not only from the urogenital tract but also from other foci of infection. " 02/01/2014 - "Agar plating, a gold standard for detection of bacterial uropathogens, is labor intensive, limited for distinguishing between environmental contaminants and pathogens, and fails to effectively detect mixed infections. "
2.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 01/01/2006 - "Tumor colony-forming efficiency was dramatically reduced to 4.5% or 0.5% in POE (60 or 120 microg/mL)-supplemented soft agar medium compared with that of POE-free medium (defined as 100%). " 10/28/1992 - "Antisense-fos also inhibited soft agar growth to 1% of control values and dramatically reduced tumor growth in nude mice. " 04/23/2007 - "We further report that RHPS4 is more potent against cancer cells that grow as colonies in soft agar than cells growing as monolayers. " 12/15/1999 - "Tumor-suppressive effects of MnSOD-overexpressing cells were indicated by: (a) decreased plating efficiency; (b) elongated cell population doubling time; (c) lower clonogenic fraction in soft agar; and (d) complete inhibition or delayed onset of tumor formation in nude mice. " 12/01/1982 - "We attribute the high rate of colony formation to an improved method of cell preparation (combined mechanical and enzymatic dissociation of tumors) which may be applicable to other primary human tumors assayed in the soft agar system."
3.	Hemolysis 08/01/1984 - "This method of assaying hemolysis in a liquid grown medium has proven effective in determining the hemolytic properties of strains which appeared negative or questionable on blood agar as well as strains which in virulence tests were negative. " 03/01/2014 - "We noticed that incorporation of selected herbal extracts in blood agar medium showed significant reduction in hemolysis (MIC 300μl/plate), indicating inhibition of SLO. " 10/01/2002 - "The Lancefield system of serogrouping the streptococci by the expression of beta-hemolysis on blood agar plates is still very useful for the identification of streptococci for patient management. " 03/01/1965 - "In addition, hemolysis was suppressed in old cultures in which viability was diminished, and was eliminated when colonies were removed from the agar surface by micromanipulation. " 06/01/2011 - "The aim of the study was to assess the reliability of human blood agar media (HuBA) in identifying Streptococcus pyogenes by hemolysis analysis. "
4.	Keratitis 08/01/2004 - "Efficacy of transport media use versus direct inoculation of blood agar plates in the microbiologic evaluation of experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae keratitis." 04/01/2003 - "Efficacy of transport media use versus direct inoculation of blood agar plates in the microbiologic evaluation of experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae keratitis." 01/01/2015 - "In this institutional study, patients with suspected infectious keratitis meeting traditional criteria for diagnostic corneal specimen collection and culture were randomized to the order of first specimen collection method: ESwab or a sample directly plated for growth on chocolate agar. " 07/01/2011 - "Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud's agar from a patient with keratitis." 02/01/2006 - "To elucidate whether BACTEC Peds Plus F broth, usually used for culturing body fluids in paediatric departments, can be used for corneal cultures from cases with clinically suspected infectious keratitis, and to compare yields between this method and traditional methods (blood agar, chocolate agar, a fungal media, and swab transport media). "
5.	Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease) 08/25/2006 - "Comparative efficacy of an IS900 tissue PCR, bacterial culture, johnin, agar-gel immunodiffusion (AGID) and absorbed-ELISA tests was investigated in 43 goats naturally infected with paratuberculosis. " 08/01/1997 - "To investigate the relation between lesions and serologic response in sheep with naturally acquired paratuberculosis and to evaluate the efficacy of agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) and ELISA as diagnostic tests. " 07/01/2011 - "Parameters used herein to define paratuberculosis status were serum ELISA, serum agar gel immunodiffusion, cultureable fecal MAP, histopathology at necropsy and clinical disease. " 12/01/2010 - "avium paratuberculosis (MAP; n = 9), 0.125-2 mg/L for Mycobacterium kansasii (MKN;n = 2), 0.25-1 mg/L for Mycobacterium abscessus (MAB; n = 11), 4 mg/L for Mycobacterium smegmatis (MSMG; n = 1), and 1 and 8 mg/L for Mycobacterium ulcerans (MUL; n = 1), by microdilution and agar dilution methods, respectively. " 09/01/2007 - "A dairy herd, which had no imported animals, presented clinically suspect animals and was investigated for paratuberculosis using faecal culture, histopathology, indirect ELISA and the agar gel immunodiffusion test. "

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