Immunomodulation of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and function as a novel host defense mechanism in infectious colitis
Although epithelial cells represent the primary site of host contact for attaching and effacing pathogens, their contribution to host defense is relatively unrecognized. Both idiopathic and infectious forms of colitis disrupt normal intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) proliferation, differentiation an...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46252 |