Depletion of epithelial stem-cell compartments in the small intestine of mice lacking Tcf-4

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 379-383

  Korinek, Vladimir ^a,b   Barker, Nick ^a   Moerer, Petra ^a   Van Donselaar, Elly ^a   Huls, Gerwin ^a   Peters, Peter J ^a   Clevers, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; GENE MUTATION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ENDODERM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROVILLI; STEM CELLS; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031848068     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1270     Document Type: Article

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