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  • Shiga toxin uptake by human epithelial cells
  • Shiga toxin uptake by human epithelial cells
  • Shiga toxin uptake by human epithelial cells
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Glioblastoma cells showing endocytosis
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Glioblastoma cells showing endocytosis
  • Glioblastoma cells showing endocytosis
  • Glioblastoma cells transfected with P10
  • Glioblastoma cells transfected with P10
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Beta cells secreting insulin in human pancreas
  • Insulin secretion in islets of Langerhans, pancreas
  • Stoma and chloroplasts of maize leaf
  • Advances in stroke treatment
  • Advances in stroke treatment.
  • Clathrin-coated pit, inner leaflet of the plasma membrane
  • Clathrin-coated pit, inner leaflet of the plasma membrane