Sentences with phrase «epithelial barrier so»

Probiotics strengthen the intestinal epithelial barrier so that the damaging contents of the gut remain out of our bodies.

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Vitamin A also maintains epithelial cells, which are responsible for keeping body surfaces healthy so that they can act as barriers to infection.

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.