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Record Nr.

UNINA9910643220103321

Titolo

Microbial toxins and diarrhoeal disease / / Ciba Foundation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Pitman Books Ltd., , 1985

Newark, New Jersey : , : CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (Medical Education Division), , [date of distribution not identified]

©1985

ISBN

0-470-72093-X

0-470-71863-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation Symposium ; ; 112

Disciplina

616.3/42701

Soggetti

Diarrhea - Microbiology

Bacterial toxins

Diarrhea - Etiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Microbial toxins and diarrhoeal disease; Contents; Microbial toxins and diarrhoeal diseases: introduction and overview; Regulation of water and ion movement in intestine; Discussion; Role of the mucosal barrier in toxin/microbial attachment to the gastrointestinal tract; Discussion; Toxins which activate adenylate cyclase; Discussion; Toxins which activate guanylate cyclase: heat-stable enterotoxins; Discussion; STb enterotoxin of Escherichia coli: cyclic nucleotide-independent secretion; Discussion; Mechanisms by which cyclic nucleotides and other intracellular mediators regulate secretion

DiscussionSecretory hormones of Entamoeba histolytica; Discussion; The pharmacological modification of secretory responses; Discussion; Salmonellosis: in retrospect and prospect; Discussion; Shigella toxin and the pathogenesis of shigellosis; Discussion; Staphylococcus aureus delta toxin as an enterotoxin; Discussion; Clostridial toxins active locally in the gastrointestinal tract; Discussion; Vaccine development for the control of cholera and related toxin-induced diarrhoeal diseases; Discussion; Chairman's summing-up; Index of contributors;



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