... lumen[43,44]. Considering the importance of the intestinalbarrier in the process of oral prion infection, this find-ing might help clarify the entry and routing of PrPSc in the early steps of infection. ... dpf in enterocytes of the pos-terior part of the intestine (Fig. 5M,Q,R). This lastfinding should be of interest because in terms of func-tion, the fish intestine is highly regionalized both in ... both in the larva and in the adult [38]. The posterior segment of the fish intestine is the absorption site of intact pro-teins, which might thus escape intracellular degrada-tion [39]. In the mammalian...