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Effects of transcription factor activator protein-1 on interleukin-8 expression and enteritis in response to Clostridium difficile toxin A.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Dec 2007
Lee Jin Young, Park Hye Ri, Oh Yu-Kyoung, Kim Yeong-Jeon, Youn Jeehee, Han Joong-Soo, Kim Jung Mogg
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium difficile toxin A causes acute colitis associated with intense infiltration of neutrophils. Although C. difficile toxin A is known to induce nuclear factor-kappaB-mediated chemokine expression in intestinal epithelial cells, little is known about its effect on the regulation of activator protein-1 (AP-1) by mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). In the present study, we investigated whether the MAPK...
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