Enhancement of tight junctional barrier function by micronutrients: compound-specific effects on permeability and claudin composition.

Amid an increasing number of reports in the literature concerning epithelial barrier enhancement by various nutrient compounds, there has never been a study performing side-by-side comparisons of these agents in a single epithelial model. We compare five nutrient compounds (previously reported in va...

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Main Authors: Joanna Mercado, Mary Carmen Valenzano, Cameron Jeffers, Jason Sedlak, Marina K Cugliari, Eleni Papanikolaou, Jacob Clouse, Jingya Miao, Nina E Wertan, James M Mullin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3827273?pdf=render