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Mutation of EpCAM leads to intestinal barrier and ion transport dysfunction.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 May 2015
Kozan Philip A, McGeough Matthew D, Peña Carla A, Mueller James L, Barrett Kim E, Marchelletta Ronald R, Sivagnanam Mamata
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Congenital tufting enteropathy (CTE) is a devastating diarrheal disease seen in infancy that is typically associated with villous changes and the appearance of epithelial tufts. We previously found mutations in epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) to be causative in CTE. We developed a knock-down cell model of CTE through transfection of an EpCAM shRNA construct into T84 colonic epithelial cells...
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