Stem cells in gastrointestinal epithelium: Numbers, characteristics and death

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1370, 1998, Pages 821-830

  Potten, Christopher S ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Clonogenic cells; Intestine; P53; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032578019     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0246     Document Type: Article

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