Once ingested in a blood meal, the virus needs to pass through the mosquito midgut to infect the salivary glands before being transmitted to the next human host. However, the mechanism enabling ...

He subsequently developed dyspnea on exertion. Diagnosis. Carcinoid tumor of midgut origin with large segment 3 liver metastasis. Carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease. Management.

This is because specific pH levels, enzymes, and midgut receptors are required to activate and bind a given Cry toxin to midgut cells, which leads to pore formation in the insect's intestine and ...