Human cell models to study small intestinal functions: Recapitulation of the crypt-villus axis

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 394-406

  Pageot, Louis Philippe ^a   Perreault, Nathalie ^a   Basora, Nuria ^a   Francoeur, Caroline ^a   Magny, Pierre ^a   Beaulieu, Jean François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell lines; Differentiation.; Intestine; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION;

CELL GENERATION; CELL LINES; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MODEL; DIFFERENTIATION.; HUMAN CELLS; INTESTINAL CELLS; INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE; PROLIFERATION;

STEM CELLS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CRYPT CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE VILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE;

EID: 0034658190     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(20000515)49:4<394::AID-JEMT8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Review

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