Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 bacterial ghosts retain crucial surface properties and express chlamydial antigen: An imaging study of a delivery system for the ocular surface

Drug Design, Development and Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 3741-3754

  Montanaro, Jacqueline ^a   Inic Kanada, Aleksandra ^a   Ladurner, Angela ^a   Stein, Elisabeth ^a   Belij, Sandra ^a   Bintner, Nora ^a   Schlacher, Simone ^a   Schuerer, Nadine ^a   Mayr, Ulrike Beate ^b   Lubitz, Werner ^b   Leisch, Nikolaus ^c   Barisani Asenbauer, Talin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BirD c gmbh and co Kg   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Delivery system; Electron microscopy; Epithelial cells; Fimbriae; Flagella; Foreign antigen

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CHLAMYDIA; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI NISSLE 1917; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURFACE PROPERTY; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CONJUNCTIVA; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PROBIOTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84937699000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11778881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DDDT.S84370     Document Type: Article

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