Organ Culture as a Model System for Studies on Enterotoxin Interactions with the Intestinal Epithelium

Ulver Spangsberg Lorenzen, Gert H Hansen, E Michael Danielsen

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Abstract

Studies on bacterial enterotoxin-epithelium interactions require model systems capable of mimicking the events occurring at the molecular and cellular levels during intoxication. In this chapter, we describe organ culture as an often neglected alternative to whole-animal experiments or enterocyte-like cell lines. Like cell culture, organ culture is versatile and suitable for studying rapidly occurring events, such as enterotoxin binding and uptake. In addition, it is advantageous in offering an epithelium with more authentic permeability/barrier properties than any cell line, as well as a subepithelial lamina propria, harboring the immune cells of the gut mucosa.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSuperantigens : Methods and Protocols
EditorsAmanda J. Brosnahan
Number of pages8
Volume1396
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media
Publication date2016
Pages159-166
Chapter14
ISBN (Print)978-1-4939-3342-6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4939-3344-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
SeriesMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1396
ISSN1064-3745

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