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Microvillus Inclusion Disease: A Genetic Defect Affecting Apical Membrane Protein Traffic in Intestinal Epithelium
1 Jan 2000
Abstract excerpt
The striking similarities between microvillus inclusions (MIs) in enterocytes in microvillus inclusion disease (MID) and vacuolar apical compartment in tissue culture epithelial cells, led us to analyze endoscopic biopsies of duodenal mucosa of a patient after the samples were used for diagnostic procedures. Samples from another patient with an unrelated disease were used as controls. The MID enterocytes showed a...
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