The haemagglutinin of Clostridium botulinum type C progenitor toxin plays an essential role in binding of toxin to the epithelial cells of guinea pig small intestine, leading to the efficient absorption of the toxin

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3841-3847

  Fujinaga, Yukako ^a   Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Watanabe, Sadahiro ^b   Yokota, Kenji ^a   Hirai, Yoshikazu ^a   Nagamachi, Eiko ^c   Oguma, Keiji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (Japan)

^c KIBI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorption; Clostridium botulinum; Haemagglutinin; Toxin binding

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; NEUROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; POSIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031435919     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-12-3841     Document Type: Article

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