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EFFECT BY HEAT STABLE ENTEROTOXIN (ST) OF ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI
ON VILLI OF THE SMALL INTESTINE Takahisa HASEGAWA - ICAM INNER WORLD JAPON Microphotographie / Microphotography x 50 under optical microscope, time-lapst filming THEME : TROMPE SCIENCE CATEGORIE : Univers Intérieur / Inner World Heat stable enterotoxin (ST) is one of the two diarrheal enterotoxin produced by Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). ST is known for not losing its toxicity even after being heated for ten minutes at boiling point. The ST is inoculated onto the mucosa of mouse. Blue dye was injected into the caudal vein and the villi was filmed from the side.Villi were observed being shed off their outer shell, as if hats were being taken off people’s head. |
