Fruit Fly Gut (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Fruit Fly Gut

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A normal fruit fly gut revealing the regular structure of actin staining microvilli (green) and cell nuclei (blue). This organization in the fruit fly is very similar to that of the human intestine. A study published in iScience makes use of these close parallels in structure and function to identify new activities of a toxin produced by the problematic hospital pathogen C. difficile.

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Bier Lab, UC San Diego

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