Clostridium difficile toxins induce VEGF-A and vascular permeability to promote disease pathogenesis

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is mediated by two major exotoxins, toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), that damage the colonic epithelial barrier and induce inflammatory responses. The function of the colonic vascular barrier during CDI has been relatively understudied. Here we report increase...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature microbiology 2019-02, Vol.4 (2), p.269-279
Hauptverfasser: Huang, Jun, Kelly, Ciarán P., Bakirtzi, Kyriaki, Villafuerte Gálvez, Javier A., Lyras, Dena, Mileto, Steven J., Larcombe, Sarah, Xu, Hua, Yang, Xiaotong, Shields, Kelsey S., Zhu, Weishu, Zhang, Yi, Goldsmith, Jeffrey D., Patel, Ishan J., Hansen, Joshua, Huang, Meijin, Yla-Herttuala, Seppo, Moss, Alan C., Paredes-Sabja, Daniel, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Shah, Yatrik M., Wang, Jianping, Chen, Xinhua
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