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Abnormal Rab11-Rab8-vesicles cluster in enterocytes of patients with microvillus inclusion disease.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) - 1 Jul 2017
Vogel Georg F, Janecke Andreas R, Krainer Iris M, Gutleben Karin, Witting Barbara, Mitton Sally G, Mansour Sahar, Ballauff Antje, Roland Joseph T, Engevik Amy C, Cutz Ernest, Müller Thomas, Goldenring James R, Huber Lukas A, Hess Michael W
Abstract excerpt
Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) is a congenital enteropathy characterized by accumulation of vesiculo-tubular endomembranes in the subapical cytoplasm of enterocytes, historically termed "secretory granules." However, neither their identity nor pathophysiological significance is well defined. Using immunoelectron microscopy and tomography, we studied biopsies from MVID patients (3× Myosin 5b mutations and 1×...
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