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Manxi Zheng1, Shuang Sun1, Jun Zhou1

  • 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Cell Biology in Universities of Shandong, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
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PubMed

Keywords:
adherens junctionbacterial pathogencell junctionepithelial cellepitheliuminfectiontight junctionvirulence factorepithelial junctionsbacterial pathogenesisvirulence factorsepithelial permeability

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