| Literature DB >> 11390763 |
Charalabos Pothoulakis1, Ignazio Castagliuolo, J. Thomas LaMont.
Abstract
Experiments in intact animals exposed to enterotoxins demonstrate that neurons and immune cells of the lamina propria regulate toxin-induced diarrhea and tissue damage. Clostridium difficile toxins cause profound diarrhea and acute inflammation by activating a complex cascade initiated by toxin binding to enterocyte receptors.Entities:
Year: 1998 PMID: 11390763 DOI: 10.1152/physiologyonline.1998.13.2.58
Source DB: PubMed Journal: News Physiol Sci ISSN: 0886-1714