Article
Alteration of the intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes during total parenteral nutrition.
The Journal of surgical research - 1 Oct 1998
Kiristioglu I, Teitelbaum D H
Abstract excerpt
Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) may cause increased rates of bacterial translocation (BT), possibly due to a loss of epithelial integrity. Cultured epithelial cells have been shown to lose tight junction integrity with interferon gamma (INF-gamma) an action which may be blocked by transforming g...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Translocation
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Cytokines
- Flow Cytometry
- Intestinal Mucosa
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Parenteral Nutrition, Total
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger