Virtual Endoscopy Displaying Enterocytes Undergoing Cytoplasmic Extrusion

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Channel: Cell Press · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Virtual endoscopy of a wild-type gut after the ingestion of bacteria. Clones of enterocytes are with cytoplasmic GFP. The gut has been imaged in 3D using confocal microscopy, and the movie reconstitutes a virtual passage through the gut over a distance of 420 μm.

Check out the paper at: http://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(17)30075-6

Lee, K.Z., Lestradet, M., Socha, C., Schirmeier, S., Schmitz, A., Spenlé, C., Lefebvre, O., Keime, C., Yamba, W.M., Bou Aoun, R., et al. (2016) Enterocyte Purge and Rapid Recovery Is a Resilience Reaction of the Gut Epithelium to Pore-Forming Toxin Attack. Cell Host Microbe. 20.

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