...Nannan Gao; Andjela Raduka; Fariba Rezaee ABSTRACT Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection in young children worldwide. Our group recently revealed that RSV infection disrupts the airway epithelial barrier in vitro and in vivo...

... to the basolateral extracellular space, leading to death of the outer hair cells by prolonged exposure to high concentrations of K + . Given our observations that the angulin family proteins, including ILDR1, recruit tricellulin to TCs and contribute to epithelial barrier function, we hypothesized that loss...