[To determine whether intestinal epithelial cell production of IL-1 and IL-8 occurs in response to E. histolytica infection in vivo and as an approach to studying the specific interactions between amebic trophozoites and human intestine, we used a SCID mouse-human intestinal xenograft (SCID-HU-INT) model of disease, where human intestinal xenografts were infected with virulent E. histolytica trophozoites.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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