My current research project uses stem cell organogenesis to examine H. pylori infection in the human stomach and determine whether infection upregulates epithelial ST6Gal-I expression, a ...

Components of the intestinal mucosal mechanical barrier. The mechanical barrier is made up of the mucus layer, intestinal epithelial cells, tight junctions between cells and the mucosal lamina ...

while mucosal epithelial damage is more severe owing to a lack of compensation by the weakly expressed Dsg1. In mucocutaneous pemphigus vulgaris, antibodies against both Dsg1 and Dsg3 are produced ...