Colonic Crypt Lumen (IMAGE)

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Colonic Crypt Lumen

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In the absence of claudin-2, clearance of C. rodentium (red) is impaired and bacteria are able to invade the normally-protected colonic crypt lumen. F-actin (green) and DNA (blue).

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Image courtesy of the Turner laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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