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A Protein Microarray Assay for Serological Determination of Antigen-specific Antibody Responses Following Clostridium difficile Infection
Published on: June 15, 2018
On the mode of action ofClostridium difficile toxin A: anin vitro study
C Fiorentini1, G Donelli, P Nicotera
1Lab. Ultrastrutture, Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
Cytotechnology
|February 24, 2012
Abstract:
C. difficile toxin A causes the rounding up and the formation of surface blebs in normal rat intestinal crypt cells (IEC-6). These phenomena, together with the inhibition of DNA synthesis and the cell lysis, could be the mechanisms leading the toxin-treated cells to death.

