Sentences with phrase «called epithelial barrier»

These flaws, called epithelial barrier defects, feature in human disorders, including in the skin, gut, and lung.

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Using a crystal structure of a complex protein compound of botulinum neurotoxin, Rongsheng Jin, associate professor of physiology & biophysics at UC Irvine, and collaborators found that these compounds — called clostridial hemagglutinin (HA)-- bind with epithelial cell proteins in the intestines of patients, which initiates a process that disrupts the close intercellular seals so that the complex toxin molecules can slip through the epithelial barrier.

Barriers called tight junctions guard the pathways between intestinal epithelial cells.