Primary intestinal epithelial cell response to Helicobacter hepaticus in an ex vivo setting

<p>Epithelial cells lining the intestinal mucosa play a critical role in mucosal immune homeostasis. The inability to culture primary intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) <em>in vitro</em>, limited their use in <em>ex vivo</em> IEC functional studies. Recently, a method...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alrawaf, S
Other Authors: Maloy, K
Format: Thesis
Published: 2016