The role of M cells in Salmonella infection.
Intestinal M cells, the specialised antigen-sampling cells of the mucosal immune system, are exploited by Salmonella and other pathogens as a route of invasion. Salmonella entry into M cells and colonisation of Peyer's patches involve mechanisms critical for infection of cultured cells as well as factors not accurately modelled in vitro.
Jepson
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Cell Imaging Facility and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. m.a.jepson@bris.ac.uk
Clark
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004848:Epithelium / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D010581:Peyer's Patches / Q000166:cytology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D012475:Salmonella / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology*