Age-related human small intestine methylation: Evidence for stem cell niches

BMC Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kim, Jung Yeon ^a   Siegmund, Kimberly D ^a   Tavaré, Simon ^b,c   Shibata, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; INTESTINE CRYPT; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; METHYLATION; MITOSIS RATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STEM CELL; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CELL LINEAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELLS;

EID: 27544433550     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-3-10     Document Type: Article

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