The protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii targets the paracellular pathway to invade the intestinal epithelium

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1258, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-142

  Weight, Caroline M ^a   Carding, Simon R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Invasion; Occludin; Tight junctions; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

OCCLUDIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FETUS DISEASE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84862865662     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06534.x     Document Type: Article

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