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enterotoxin

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eeinnoorttxStarts with EEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa

Word origin

From entero- + toxin.

Used in a sentence

  • An isolate from raw fish, serotype 0:6, unable to invade HeLa cells and negative for heat-stable enterotoxin, was clinically avirulent in this model and caused no lesions by histological examination.
  • A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

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