Effect of Clostridium difficile toxin A on human colonic lamina propria cells: Early loss of macrophages followed by T-cell apoptosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5462-5469

  Mahida, Y R ^a   Galvin, A ^a   Makh, S ^a   Hyde, S ^a   Sanfilippo, L ^a   Borriello, S P ^a   Sewell, H F ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON MUCOSA; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAMINA PROPRIA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0032425435     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5462-5469.1998     Document Type: Article

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