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Endocytosis
New findings from University of California in the area of endocytosis described
May 6th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Bacterial pathogens use virulence strategies to invade epithelial barriers, but active processes of epithelial cells may also contribute to the endocytosis of microbial particles. To focus on the latter, we studied the uptake of fixed and fluorescently labeled bacterial particles in intestinal and bronchoepithelial cell cultures and found it to be enhanced in Caco-2BBe and NCI-H292 cells after treatment with tumor necrosis factor alpha and an agonist antibody against the lymphotoxin beta receptor." "Confocal fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and transmission electron microscopy revealed that Staphylococcus...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-06)
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