Data are accumulating that emphasize the important role of the intestinal barrier and intestinal permeability for health and disease. However, these terms are poorly defined, their assessment is a ...

Many bacterial toxins have the ability to enter target cells, most often by using physiological endocytosis pathways, and to modify a specific intracellular target (Table 3). According to the ...

Acute ischemic stroke disrupts communication between neurons and blood vessels in penumbral areas. How neurons and blood vessels cooperate to achieve blood-brain barrier repair remains unclear. Here, ...

A musician’s query as to the origin of a warped ‘wolf’ tone, and a review of a book by physicist Marie Curie, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. A multi-century climate record ...