Integrins as receptors give insight into rotavirus and diarrhea
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 17:35
in Biology & Nature
Eleven years ago, Dr. Mary Estes of Baylor College of Medicine and her colleagues discovered the first viral enterotoxin, rotavirus NSP4, a toxic protein that affects the intestines, causing diarrhea.
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